Dr. Christian Kosel

Career development

From March 2017 to May 2021, Christian Kosel worked as a research assistant and Ph.D. student with Prof. Dr. Tina Seidel at the Chair of Educational Psychology at the Technische Universität München. In May 2021, he received his Ph.D. from the TUM School of Education with a thesis on the visual expertise of teachers (grade: summa cum laude). Since May 2021, he has continued his research as a postdoctoral researcher and is working on his habilitation. Before coming to the Technische Universität München, he studied sociology and statistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. His current research focuses on the analysis of complex eye movement patterns and other process-based data (e.g. emotions) collected under both laboratory and natural conditions. In addition, he is working on the methodological development of eye-tracking analysis procedures to increase their accuracy and potential applications in psychological research.

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List of scientific publications (sorted by year of publication)

Kosel, C., Böheim, R., Schnitzler, K., Holzberger, D., Bannert, M., Pfeffer, J., & Seidel,T. (2023). Keeping track in classroom discourse: Comparing experienced and novice teachers’ visual attention to students’ hand-raising behavior. Teaching and Teacher Education. 128(5), 10.1016/j.tate.2023.104142

Seidel, T., Kosel, C., Böheim, R., Gegenfurtner, A., & Stürmer, K. (2023). A cognitive model of professional vision and acquisition of visual expertise using video excerpts in the teaching profession. In A. Gegenfurtner & R. Stahnke (Eds.), New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction. New Perspectives on Teacher Professional Vision. Routledge.

Kosel, C., Mooseder, A., Pfeffer, J., & Seidel, T. (2023). Measuring teachers’ visual expertise using the gaze relational index based on real-world eye-tracking data and varying velocity thresholds. Journal of Expertise, 6(3) https://doi.org/https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05143

Seidel, T., Schnitzler, K., Kosel, C., Stürmer, K. & Holzberger, D. (2021). Student characteristics in the eyes of teachers: Differences between novice and expert teachers in judgment accuracy, observed behavioral cues, and gaze. Educational Psychology Review, 33(1), 69-89.

Kosel, C., Holzberger, D., & Seidel, T. (2021). Identifying Expert and Novice Visual Scanpath Patterns and Their Relationship to Assessing LearningRelevant Student Characteristics. Frontiers in Education, 5, 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.612175

Böheim, R., Knogler, M., Kosel, C. & Seidel, T. (2020). Exploring student hand-raising across two school subjects using mixed methods: An investigation of an everyday classroom behavior from a motivational perspective. Learning and Instruction, 65, No. 101250.

Pappa, C., Kosel, C., Schnitzler, K., & Seidel, T. (2020). Using eye-tracking to investigate teacher gaze: Data accuracy and drawing of meaningful dynamic areas of interest in video stimuli. Pedagogická Orientace, 29(4), 401–423. https://doi.org/10.5817/pedor2019-4-401

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