Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Asia-Pasific Conference on Giftedness, Taipei, Tayvan, 7 - 10 Temmuz 2022
The eye-tracking technique is a research method that tracks eye movements in real-time and investigates what the research participants see and how see it (Andrew, 2007; Duchowski, 2007; Holmqvist et al., 2011). This technique can be used to scientifically and objectively identify both conscious and unconscious eye movements and can analyze the habituated behavior of the research participants. Due to these advantages, it has been recently used in various fields such as marketing and education research. We aimed to systematically review giftedness studies that were conducted with eye tracking techniques. The eye-tracking technique is new for gifted education area. Eye-tracking technologies can be used in schools with different disciplines including reading, writing, mathematics, and visual basics with different groups of students. Especially in the last 10 years, the number of eye tracking studies conducted with special need groups in special education including studies with learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder (Strohmaier, 2021) and gifted students (Sajka & Rosiek, 2015; Schindler et al., 2016) has increased. We selected 15 empirical studies that were published between 2012 and 2021 based on the inclusion criteria. Once we analyzed the studies, we reached four themes including problem-solving strategies, attention span, time of solution, and fixation duration concepts. We observed that researchers usually use standard tests and non-standard tests to evaluate the eye tracking activities. The analysis revealed that the studies are changeable according to analysis and design. Future researchers should consider conducting more experimental and quasi-experimental studies.