In working towards unraveling the mechanisms of productive collaborative learning, dual eye tracking is a potentially helpful methodology. Dual eye tracking is a method where eye-tracking data from people working on a task are analyzed jointly, for example to extract measures of joint visual attention. We explore how eye gaze relates to effective…

Prior research shows that representational competencies that enable students to use graphical representations to reason and solve tasks is key to learning in many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics domains. We focus on two types of representational competencies: (1) "sense making" of connections by verbally explaining how…

Prior research shows that representational competencies that enable students to use graphical representations to reason and solve tasks is key to learning in many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) domains. We focus on two types of representational competencies: (1) "sense making" of connections by verbally…