Showing the model's eye movements is expected to guide learners' attention to what the model is looking at in that moment, which should make it easier to understand and learn from the demonstration and verbal explanation. Several studies have found beneficial effects of such 'eye movement modeling examples' (EMME) on attention guidance and found enhanced learning of classification tasks.
A recent study published in Learning and Instruction by leading Welten Institute researcher Halszka Jarodzka along with team members from Utrecht University (the Netherlands) found that giving students in secondary schools modeling examples that demonstrated eye movement improved their performance in procedural problem-solving tasks. Up to now, EMME has been shown to help students in other aspects, but to the best knowledge of the research team this is the first study to demonstrate that EMME can be effective to enhance learning of a procedural problem-solving task.
