How teachers respond to children's eye gaze

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How did teachers respond to pupil's gaze aversion (GA) in observed pupil-teacher interactions?

In order to explore teachers’ responses to pupils’ eye gaze aversion the study analysed thirty-six teacher-pupil interactions in which teachers asked children questions individually. Later the same teachers were given the opportunity to comment on their interactions with pupils which they viewed through video recordings.

The study found that:

the teachers tended to be influenced more by the time it took for a pupil to answer than the time pupils spent averting their eyes; and
about a third of the teachers’ comments about the interactions referred to eye gaze behaviour as a factor influencing their response; and
interpretations of eye gaze behaviour were not consistent across the group of teachers.

The teachers involved in this part of the study did not link a relatively high proportion of time pupils spent averting their gaze with the idea that they are still thinking what their response will be (i.e. They haven’t given up and it is therefore worthwhile waiting a little longer before interrupting, to see what the child has to say.)

When the researchers asked the teachers to comment on video recordings of their teaching sessions, they frequently referred to pupils’ gaze behaviour, showing that they were aware of it. Given that teachers did detect children’s gaze-related cues, what did the teachers make of the gaze behaviour in actual teaching situations? In a second phase of the study the researchers looked at this question more closely.

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