Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
EDUCATIONAL MEDIA INTERNATIONAL, cilt.0, ss.1-17, 2026 (ESCI, Scopus)
In today’s increasingly visual world, developing systematicapproaches to strengthen students’ visual literacy has become essen-tial. Visual literacy is defined as the ability to read, interpret, andconstruct meaning from visual representations through the use ofvisual language and visual structures. This study investigated theimpact of collaborative visualization on the development of visualinterpretation, one of the core visual reading skills within visualliteracy that involves decoding visual language, analyzing visualstructures, and constructing meaning from images. Collaborativevisualization involves learners jointly viewing, discussing, interpret-ing, and creating visuals, while visual interpretation refers to perceiv-ing an image, analyzing it through visual language, and constructingmeaning collaboratively. Using a pretest – posttest control groupdesign, the study measured students’ visual interpretation perfor-mance and attention patterns with a test based on visual languageand administered via an online eye-tracking tool. Results indicatedthat collaborative visualization significantly enhanced visual interpre-tation skills compared with individual practice. Eye-tracking datafurther supported these outcomes, showing earlier and more focusedattention on visually and semantically relevant areas, suggestingmore effective visual reading processes. Overall, the study providesa novel perspective on improving visual interpretation and broadervisual literacy skills through structured collaborative learning.