Analyses of Comparative Gaze with Eye-Tracking Technique during Classroom Observations
Abstract: This paper focuses on classroom observations, which are helpful activities for teachers to improve teaching skills, involving students in their course, and using chalks and slides better. This kind of activities mainly consists of a lecture that is open to other teachers and a reflective discussion with the teachers after the lecture. In order to encourage such activities and make them more fruitful, we introduced an eye-tracking technique to understand visual attention of the experts on the actual classroom observations. Beginners on classroom observations are also measured and compared with the experts. From the results of the experiments, a trend of comparative gaze on the elements in classroom like the teacher, the slides, and the students is typically found among the experts. The trend may be applied to training programs in faculty development.