“Many traditional assessment strategies in medical education rely on tabulating learners' scores in order to obtain grades,” says Dr. Szulewski. “In the real world, medical learners are faced with the need to make many decisions in a short time period, which increases their cognitive load and puts a strain on working memory. We have shown that we can now measure cognitive load in an unobtrusive way during medical assessments.” Changes in pupil size correlate with changes in cognitive processing demands.
The results of the study revealed that novices expend more mental effort than experts when answering medical questions – which is true even when both the novices and the experts answer the same question correctly.
Although ICE doesn't have eye-tracking glasses, we do have a portable eye tracking device that could be used for a similar study!
Read the complete article from Queen's University here: The eyes have it