Eye tracking research in educational science has provided interesting insights into how learning works and how its instruction should be designed. Most of this research – just as most eye tracking research in general – had taken place in the laboratory. Educational practice, however, is very different from any laboratory setting. For instance, a classroom is composed of many students in contrast to lab studies with one participant only. Hence, the question is to which extent can we generalize findings from lab studies to the educational practice and where do we need to move on towards more field studies to capture its complexity? 

In her keynote, Jarodzka addresses this questions from two perspectives, namely from the viewpoint of the teacher and from the student. In the teacher perspective, she will focus on how teachers develop visual expertise in managing a classroom full of students and how this can be investigated by eye tracking (and other triangulating measures). In the students perspective, she will discuss what influence the presence of others has on the students’ attentional processes and ultimately on their learning and how this could be investigated, but also supported with eye tracking.

For more information on the 5th Polish Eye Tracking Conference go to the conference site [ http://konferencjaet.neurodevice.pl/program.php ].