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Lei, Simon A. – Education, 2010
The physical design of classrooms, including studios, laboratories, auditoriums, and other indoor environments, can have a profound impact on student learning and subsequent overall ratings (student evaluations) of college instructors. Many college classrooms have been conventionally designed in the shape of a square or a rectangle, with…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Laboratories, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Classroom Design
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Rasmussen, Ambrose G. – Education, 1983
A classroom floor plan, conforming to theoretically equable features (line of sight bearings, expanding/concentrically diminishing wave forms, vectors proportionate, "time") is presented to show that an equable state exists but is entirely theoretical and as a reminder that different options can exist without diminishing the basic human…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
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Hood-Smith, Nancy E.; Leffingwell, R. John – Education, 1983
Case study assessed effects of rearrangement of desks in an open classroom on incidents of disruptive behavior occurring in that classroom. Results revealed that alteration of the physical environment produced positive responses from students through reduction of maladaptive behavior occurrences. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Classroom Design