How Learners Visually Navigate Concept Maps: An Analysis of Eye Movement Single Transitions

• In Event: Poster Session 13
  In Poster Session: Investigations of Science Learning

Abstract

In this study, participant’s eye movement sequences were analyzed to understand how they mentally processed relationships while using a concept map in an argumentation task. Fifty participants were instructed to use computer-based concept maps to complete an argument and identify argument-relevant information. Eye gaze was captured and fixations on concept map elements (nodes and link labels) were sequenced. This finding suggests that when constructing the meaning of a node-link-node proposition, the order of activation of the node and link terms in memory is less important and the meaning of the proposition may be constructed regardless of order in which the individual terms were activated.

Authors

• Kiran Bisra, Simon Fraser University

• John Cale Nesbit, Simon Fraser University