Conferences

From February 4th to the 8th, 2025, our team presented a poster at the 14th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME14), held in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. The poster, titled “Gaining Insight – Developing Eye-Tracking Vignettes for Teacher Training on Misinterpretations of Statistical Graphs,” introduced the Eye-Teach-Stats project to an international audience of mathematics education researchers. We demonstrated how eye-tracking data and student statements are combined into interactive vignettes that help future teachers diagnose and respond to common errors in graph interpretation.

At the 57th annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik (GDM), held in Würzburg, Germany, our team presented the latest work from the Eye-Teach-Stats project. The talk, “Schülerinterpretationen beim Verteilungsvergleich diagnostizieren und fördern: Eye-Tracking Vignetten als neuer Ansatz für die Lehrkräfte(aus)bildung (Diagnosing and Supporting Students’ Interpretations When Comparing Distributions: Eye-Tracking Vignettes as a New Approach for Teacher (Pre-/In-Service) Education)” highlighted how eye-tracking vignettes can reveal systematic errors when comparing data distributions.

On February 29th, 2024, Eye-Teach-Stats was featured at the Thursday Colloquium of the DOK programme at the University of St. Gallen. This informal forum for Ph.D. students and invited guests offered an excellent opportunity to present work-in-progress and receive valuable constructive feedback. Our talk, titled “Fehlinterpretationen im Umgang mit statistischen Graphen diagnostizieren: Eye-Tracking Vignetten als neuer Ansatz für die Lehrkräfte(aus)bildung(Diagnosing misinterpretations in dealing with statistical graphs: Eye-tracking vignettes as a new approach for teacher training)” introduced our innovative use of eye-tracking vignettes in teacher education. We discussed how these vignettes aim to strengthen teachers’ diagnostic skills in interpreting statistical graphs.