Examining Science Text and Picture Processing through Eye-Tracking Technology \ua0

Data about eye-tracking investigations with primary, middle, and secondary school students and undergraduates show that basic and finer-grained indices of visual behavior can be collected during the first and second-pass reading of an illustrated science text to understand \u2013 in an intrusive way 12 cognitive processing of different types of representations. Data reveal the important link between the online integrative processing and the offline outcomes of conceptual learning from text, as revealed by various measures at immediate and delayed posttests