Eye tracking is increasingly being used in Educational Science and so
has the interest of the eye tracking community grown in this topic. In
this paper we briefly introduce the discipline of Educational Science
and why it might be interesting to couple it with eye tracking research.
We then introduce three major research areas in Educational Science
that have already successfully used eye tracking: First, eye tracking
has been used to improve the instructional design of computer-based learning and testing environments, often using hyper- or multimedia. Second, eye tracking has shed light on expertise and
its development in visual domains, such as chess or medicine. Third,
eye tracking has recently been also used to promote visual expertise by
means of eye movement modeling examples. We outline the main
educational theories for these research areas and indicate where further
eye tracking research is needed to expand them.