Collaborate with stakeholders and with ethicists and lawyers to enable classroom eye-tracking under data-protection law¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · 4 claims (4 for) · 1 study (1 review), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 4 claims rest on one study

Description¶

To prevent researchers from withdrawing from classroom eye-tracking and retreating to artificial laboratory scenarios with adult university students, the article recommends that educational scientists collaborate with stakeholders in educational practice (teachers, school boards, parents) and with ethicists and lawyers to work on solutions that enable research while protecting personal data. Recording one eye-tracked participant in a class of 25 pupils requires 51 signed consents, illustrating the burden. The authors warn that "with new technologies come new possibilities, but also new responsibilities."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Innovative approaches to consent and data protection so that research in schools remains feasible

Constraints¶

• Since the EU General Data Protection Regulation came into place in March 2018, classroom eye-tracking data collection has been almost brought to a hold due to new legal regulations

Target Learners¶

• school children and their teachers participating in classroom research

Target Learning Goals¶

• enabling research on visual perception underlying teaching and learning in authentic classrooms

Claims¶

• Experienced teachers can deduce student engagement profiles from visual observation, while beginning teachers struggle [+W]
• Combining eye-tracking with verbal reports can capture differences between more- and less-experienced teachers in detecting critical incidents [+W]
• Joint attention between teachers and pupils depends on situational differences and teachers' agency and communion [+W]
• Experienced and student teachers establish joint attention with pupils at different moments during instruction [+W]

Related Strategies¶

• Expand research methodologies to monitor learning processes during multimedia instruction

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• 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