The photographic eye-movement records of successful and unsuccessful college students

Abstract

Probation students were matched with successful college students on the bases of sex, major subject, and score on an intelligence test. For each group the average ranking on the intelligence test was slightly below the 20th percentile. The successful group compared with the probation group obtains higher scores in reading comprehension, but no significant differences appear in speed of reading. Photographic records of eye movement show that the successful students spend slightly less time in fixational pauses while reading, and that the duration and number of regressional fixations are slightly less, than for the probation students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)