This study presents the results of research using an eye-tracking technique which enables following eyeball movements while solving a scientific task. Also presented is an analysis of the visual attention for participants (further called subjects) of a different mathematical experience while solving a mathematics test task. The aim of the research is to determine the profile of methods of solution of tasks which require the analysis of a diagram. The research opens new cognitive possibilities in mathematics didactics by showing the utility of the eye-tracking technique in a deeper recognition of the processes of learning and teaching Maths.
The paper presents the results of research on the relationship between self-assessed comprehension of physics lectures and final grades of junior high school students (aged 13–15), high school students (aged 16–18) and physics students at the Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland (aged 21). Students' declared level of comprehension was measured during a physics lecture on a prearranged scale of 1–10 with the use of a personal response system designed for the purpose of this experiment. Through the use of this tool, we obtained about 2000 computer records of students' declared comprehension of a 45 min lecture, which we named ‘the spectrum of comprehension’. In this paper, we present and analyse the correlation between students' declared comprehension of the content presented in the lecture and their final learning results.
For the purpose of this work, 16-year-old students gave their opinions on the usefulness of physics formulas from the school curriculum. The average students regarded below 30% of the presented formulas as useful, whereas for winners of a physics competition it was over 60%. Using the SMI Hi-Speed1250 eyetracker, a relationship between 52 students' eye fixation times on 16 presented formulas and their opinion on the formulas' usefulness was designated. For the best students, the Pearson correlation coefficient was close to zero. For average students, it was 0.6. Key words: physics formulas, public schools, school curriculum.
This work presents the results of research on over 5,000 students aged 14–15 that focuses on their attitudes towards school subjects with special regard to physics. It describes the mathematical relationships between an interest in physics and students’ school grades, their plans to choose a profession in which knowledge in physics is needed, an opinion on the usefulness of physics for society and an assessment of the usefulness of the most important formulas from the school curriculum. The average declared interest in school physics, the assessment of its social usefulness and the willingness to choose a profession relating to physics were relatively low. Of the 16 most important formulas taught in physics during the last three years of learning, only 3 formulas were considered useful by the students. The work also presents the ranking of the persons in the history of physics with the greatest impact on the fate of humanity, according to students.
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