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EduPort 2021, 5(1):1-9 | DOI: 10.21062/edp.2021.002

TECHNICAL MANUALS READING STRATEGIES OF PRIMARY TEACHER TRAINEES

Jan Janovec, Ivana Brtnová Čepičková

Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (CZECH REPUBLIC)

Primary school teachers use a variety of visual materials in their teaching. In the technical field, it is often the diagrams, designs, and other types of illustrations the teachers accompany their instruction or facilitate practical work of their pupils with. Of course, primary school teacher trainees get acquainted with such materials in the higher education study process as well as within the school study placements. As the materials are intended to express a sequence of production steps, they are often drawn in series where the individual images are phased. Such arrangement is generally accepted as understandable and with greater potential to guide the readers' actions. Nevertheless, the question may occur whether the readers perceive such instruction materials in the same way they perceive ordinary images. This was assessed by, eye-tracking technology, the basic tool of the research, which analyses the respondents’ eye movements when looking at images on the computer monitor screen. The technology can determine what the respondent is looking at while solving the task. The results in the form of qualitative and quantitative data were compared with the data taken with common images and text tasks. Statistically significant differences were found that are discussed in conclusion together with other findings

Keywords: primary education, teacher trainees, eye-tracking, technical education, science education

Accepted: December 3, 2021; Published: December 1, 2021  Show citation