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Изследване на погледа при възприемане на елементите в страница от учебник по български език
Research of the Gaze during Perception of Textbooks Page Elements in Bulgarian

Author(s): Despina Vasileva
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Psychology, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, School education, Vocational Education, State/Government and Education, Comparative Psychology, Pedagogy
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: eye tracking; textbook structure elements; text components in textbook; non-textual components

Summary/Abstract: A study about perception of a page from a textbook of Bulgarian is presented in the article. Participants in the experiment are 30 students of age 15 to 19 from high schools in Sofia. The study is realized through an eye tracking system. For the purposes of the study 8 stimuli (textbook pages) were constructed, containing the components as follows: “text”, “image”, and “diagram”. In each stimulus the quantity of the components differs. All possible pairs in a combination in the left and in the right field of view are presented in the stimuli. The goal of the research is to be examined the fixation of the gaze on each elements of a textbook page. To assess the characteristic of the gaze was calculated the number of saccades in the left and right visual field of the slides. The data are organized in spreadsheets. Statistical analysis is performed in two-group t-test (two samples with different variances). Mean number of saccades, standard deviation, standard error, critical ratio are calculated.

  • Issue Year: 63/2021
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 467 - 474
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bulgarian