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 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.

From 9 to 12 September 2025, Vuslat Şeker presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2025 in Belgrade, in Network 24 – Mathematics Education Research. The paper, “Using Eye-Tracking Vignettes to Improve Pre-Service Teachers’ Diagnostic Skills in Histogram Interpretation,” co-authored with Lonneke Boels, Anita Alexander, Ayline Heursen, Markus Vogel, and Wim Van Dooren, examined how pre-service teachers engage with eye-tracking data to diagnose systematic errors in histogram interpretation.

From 3 to 7 March 2025, Ayline Heursen presented the team’s work at the 58th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik (GDM) in Saarbrücken, marking the society’s 50th anniversary. The presentation, “Entwicklung von Eye-Tracking Vignetten zu systematischen Fehlern bei der Interpretation statistischer Graphen” (“Developing Eye-Tracking Vignettes on Systematic Errors in Interpreting Statistical Graphs”), was co-authored with Markus Vogel, Saskia Schreiter, Frank Reinhold, Martin Abt, Lonneke Boels, Vuslat Şeker, and Wim Van Dooren. The talk introduced how the project’s eye-tracking vignettes are designed to help mathematics teachers recognise systematic errors in students’ interpretation of dotplots, histograms, boxplots, and case-value plots, and sparked discussion with the wider German-speaking mathematics education research community gathered in Saarbrücken.

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.

From August 27th to the 30th, 2024, the members of the Eye-Teach-Stats team contributed to Symposium 6 at the EARLI SIG 3 Conference, hosted by the Technical University of Munich. The symposium, “Beyond the Surface: Investigating Conceptual Difficulties in Statistical Graph Interpretation,” featured three coordinated presentations that explored how students understand, misunderstand, and reason with statistical graphs. Eye-Teach-Stats contributions included: “Students’ Conceptual Difficulties When Interpreting Statistical Graphs”; “Misinterpretations When Dealing With Statistical Graphs – In Light of Conceptual Change”; and “Conceptual Change and Cognitive Processes When Comparing Box Plots.” The symposium reflected the theoretical foundations and instructional goals of the Eye-Teach-Stats project: helping teachers recognize and respond to systematic student errors using eye-tracking-based vignettes.

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.