Now you know some reading measures, practice calculating various reading measures from a real dataset. Below I have shown you the pattern of eye movements and fixations over one sentence, and I want you to calculate several different reading time measures. I encourage you to work with one or more partners.
Unlike most exercises in this subject, for this test there are specific correct answers. Don't move on to the rest of the module until you are able to answer the below test questions correctly (the correct answers are listed at the bottom of this page).
Here's another sample eye-tracking result. In this case, I'm also showing you how many milliseconds each fixation lasted. Again, I'm showing the results in both a picture and a table.
Fixation 1 | 175 ms | |||||
Fixation 2 | 202 ms | |||||
Fixation 3 | 118 ms | |||||
Fixation 4 | 492 ms | |||||
Fixation 5 | 326 ms | |||||
Fixation 6 | 288 ms | |||||
Fixation 7 | 706 ms | |||||
Fixation 8 | 383 ms | |||||
Fixation 9 | 421 ms | |||||
Fixation 10 | 512 ms | |||||
Fixation 11 | 111 ms | |||||
Fixation 12 | 367 ms | |||||
Fixation 13 | 545 ms | |||||
Fixation 4 | 862 ms | |||||
The | busy girl | saw | the bank | was closed | that afternoon |
I want to know how long people took to read the phrase was closed. Below I have listed several different reading time measures; some of them are ones you read about in the previous question, and some are totally new. (Beneath each one I have included a brief explanation of what it means.) Calculate each reading time measure and fill in the blank.
When you have finished these activities, continue to the next section of the module: "Reflection on eye-tracking for reading".
Answers: first fixation time: 706ms; first pass time: 1089ms; go-past time: 2133ms; second pass time: 111ms; rereading time: 545ms; total time: 1745ms.
by Stephen Politzer-Ahles. Last modified on 2021-05-14. CC-BY-4.0.