Reading errors and eye fixation durations of primary school Latvia readers
2016
Atvars, A., OptimEyz, Ltd., Priekule, Priekule Municipality (Latvia) | Umbrasko, S., University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia) | Markus, D, Riga Teacher Training and Educational Management Academy (Latvia)
Grade 1 to 4 is a period when children learn to read. These grades were analyzed to track differences between reading performances when reading Latvian texts with various difficulty levels. Totally more than 200 children were involved. Eye tracking data were collected. It was observed that average fixation durations and reading errors decrease while the grade is increasing. It was found that there is a weak correlation between words that observe long eye fixations (as seen from Heat maps) and words that have reading errors (as heard from the speech of readers). A correlation (R 2 = 0.65) between average eye fixation durations and the number of reading errors for individual readers was observed. It was found that Spache readability formula correlates (R 2 = 0.74) with average fixation durations of the 3rd grade readers when reading Latvian texts.
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