Experienced teachers can deduce student engagement profiles from visual observation, while beginning teachers struggle¶

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Currency · newest study 2020 · checked against its sources 2026-10-22 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Seidel et al. showed that experienced teachers can quite proficiently deduce students' engagement and characteristic profiles (e.g., strong, struggling, underestimating) from mere visual observation, while beginning teachers struggle with it. → Jarodzka 2020

Evidence¶

Jarodzka 2020¶

Jarodzka, H., Skuballa, I., & Gruber, H. (2020). Eye-Tracking in Educational Practice: Investigating Visual Perception Underlying Teaching and Learning in the Classroom. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09565-7

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The review reports Seidel, Schnitzler, Kosel, Stürmer, and Holzberger's study, which showed video clips of authentic classroom lessons to more- versus less-experienced teachers, combining eye-tracking with diagnoses of pupils' behavior and elaborations. The review attributes the finding to the authors' own report.

"The authors showed that experienced teachers can do so quite proficiently thereby also contributing to our knowledge on teachers'professional vision (see next section), while beginning teachers struggle with it."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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• Machine learning analysis of regular video recordings can support conclusions on learners' visual perception in lectures — related
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• Judgment accuracy varies across student characteristic profiles: struggling and uninterested profiles are diagnosed more accurately than strong, underestimating, and overestimating profiles — related
• Expert teachers show expertise-related eye movement patterns in some classroom tasks but not others, indicating task and context specificity — related