On 18 August 2026, our team will lead the workshop “From Eye Movements to Instructional Design” at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2026 in Tampere, Finland, in Network 24 – Mathematics Education Research. The workshop introduces teacher educators and researchers to eye-tracking vignettes as a tool for diagnosing students’ misinterpretations of statistical graphs, dotplots, case-value plots, histograms, and boxplots, combining students’ answers, verbal explanations, and eye-movement data. Participants will work with an example vignette to identify patterns in students’ reasoning, discuss how these insights can inform instructional decisions, and reflect on how eye-tracking vignettes can be integrated into their own teaching, teacher education, or research contexts.

On 30 September 2026, Wim Van Dooren will present the lecture “Misinterpretaties van grafieken – Een inkijk in onderzoek naar oorzaken en remedies” (“Misinterpretations of Graphs – Insights into Research on Causes and Remedies”) at WOMO (Wiskundeonderwijs meets Onderzoek), a conference organised by the VVWL (Vlaamse Vereniging Wiskunde Leraars). The lecture will address the systematic errors students make when interpreting statistical graphs such as boxplots and histograms — misinterpretations that persist even into higher education and among people who regularly work with such graphs. Drawing on research and eye-tracking data, Van Dooren will explore where these misinterpretations originate and how they can be addressed or prevented in teaching.

From 13 to 14 July 2026, our team presented three contributions at the 12th International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS12) in Brisbane, Australia. In the session “Eye-Tracking and Skills in the Context of Data Visualisation,” Lonneke Boels presented “How Teachers Make Sense of Students’ Misinterpreting Statistical Graphs: Teachers’ Responses to Eye-Tracking Vignettes,” while Ayline Heursen presented “Supporting the Understanding of Students’ Misinterpretation of Statistical Graphs – an Analysis of Processing Data of Eye-Tracking Vignettes.” Ayline Heursen also presented the poster “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Eye-Tracking Vignettes for Developing Teachers’ Diagnostic Skills in Statistical Graph Interpretation Preliminary Findings from an Ongoing Study,” sharing preliminary findings from the project’s ongoing evaluation study.

On 2 July 2026, Vuslat Şeker led a 90-minute workshop at the Onderwijs Research Dagen (ORD) 2026 in Utrecht, with co-authors Corina Breukink, Jop Schaap, Anita Alexander, and Lonneke Boels, titled “Hoe denken leerlingen over statistische diagrammen? Inzicht in leerprocessen met oogbewegingsdata” (“How do students think about statistical graphs? Insight into learning processes through eye-tracking data”). Teacher educators and researchers explored how eye-tracking vignettes can help teachers interpret students’ answers and guide their reasoning about statistical graphs such as histograms and case-value plots.

On 24 June 2026, Vuslat Şeker and Lonneke Boels presented at the first Dutch Conference on Mathematics Education Research (DREAM), held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Their presentation, “Using Eye-Tracking Vignettes to Explore Teachers’ Interpretation of Students’ Reasoning: A Case Study,” shared a case study of how a teacher engaged with an eye-tracking vignette to interpret a student’s reasoning about a statistical graph. DREAM brought together researchers from across all levels of mathematics education in the Netherlands, offering a valuable opportunity to introduce Eye-Teach-Stats to a growing national community of mathematics education researchers.

On 29 April 2026, Wim Van Dooren presented the session “Misinterpretaties van grafieken – Een inkijk in onderzoek naar oorzaken en remedies” (“Misinterpretations of Graphs – Insights into Research on Causes and Remedies”) at WiskundeConnect, the first edition of a new study day for mathematics teachers organised by Platform Wiskunde Vlaanderen, VVWL, and CNO (University of Antwerp) in Brussels. The session explored the systematic errors students make when interpreting statistical graphs such as histograms and boxplots, and their origins in research. Participants also had the chance to explore the Eye-Teach-Stats learning materials, which show how these errors can be diagnosed through eye-tracking data and how teachers can respond to them.

From 2 to 6 March 2026, Ayline Heursen presented the paper “Systematischen Fehlern bei der Interpretation statistischer Graphen durch Lehrkräftebildung begegnen” (“Countering Systematic Errors in the Interpretation of Statistical Graphs through Teacher Education”) at the 59th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik (GDM) in Wuppertal, Germany. The paper was co-authored by Ayline Heursen, Vuslat Şeker, Anita Alexander, Martin Abt, Lonneke Boels, Wim Van Dooren, Frank Reinhold, Saskia Schreiter, and Markus Vogel. The presentation showed how the project’s eye-tracking vignettes serve as teacher education materials that help teachers develop their diagnostic skills and respond to students’ reasoning.

On 14 January 2026, Ayline Heursen, Vuslat Şeker, and Lonneke Boels presented at Session 21 of the Paderborn ProDaBi Colloquium on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in School. Their talk, “Bridging Research and Practice: Integrating Eye-Tracking Insights into Teacher Education on Students’ Misinterpretation,” introduced how the Eye-Teach-Stats e-learning course supports pre- and in-service teachers in developing diagnostic skills through eye-tracking vignettes. The team shared preliminary findings from several vignettes, focusing on how teachers reason about and interpret students’ misinterpretations of statistical graphs such as histograms and dotplots. The session offered an opportunity to connect the project’s research with the wider ProDaBi community working on data science and AI education.

From 30 September to 2 October 2025, Vuslat Şeker presented at the 14th IASE Satellite Conference, “Statistics and Data Science Education in STEAM,” hosted by the University of Münster. The talk, “Pre-service teachers’ use of eye-tracking data to diagnose students’ misinterpretations in statistical graphs,” co-authored with Lonneke Boels, Anita Alexander, Ayline Heursen, Saskia Schreiter, Wim Van Dooren, Frank Reinhold, Martin Abt, and Markus Vogel, shared findings on how a pre-service mathematics teacher used eye-tracking data to diagnose the frequency-value confusion error in histogram interpretation.

On 19 September 2025, the Eye-Teach-Stats project was presented as a poster at the seventh edition of “Onderwijs meets Onderzoek,” organised by the NVvW together with SLO, the Freudenthal Institute, and the Expertise Centre for Numeracy and Mathematics. The poster, presented by Lonneke Boels and Vuslat Şeker, introduced the project’s e-learning modules that help mathematics teachers diagnose and address students’ systematic misinterpretations of statistical graphs such as histograms, boxplots, dotplots, and case-value plots.