“…The eye movement metrics we adapted in this research, as well as the approach we used to study them, can be useful to future problem posing studies. Based also on the findings of a previous eye-movement study (Chen & Zheng, 2014) that explored the problem-finding process of two groups of undergraduate students with different levels of problem finding ability and that, similar to our study, found no significant group differences in most of the static eye-movement metrics they measured (e.g., total fixation duration, average fixation duration, fixation counts, and pupil diameters), we believe that dynamic eye-movement metrics like scanpath may be more sensitive or suited to analyzing how competent posers dynamically process information in the problem posing process (compare pieces of information, move back and forth between pieces of information, move to a different idea or approach, etc.). Finally, given that eye fixations and verbalization offer complementary ways to capture cognitive processes to some extent (Stieff et al, 2011), future research can supplement our eye-tracking methodology with recall interviews or think alouds in order to delve deeper into possible differences between more-and less-competent problem posers.…”