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Dabae Lee; Jozenia T. Colorado-Resa; Yeol Huh – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
This developmental study explores the process and outcomes of creating an active learning classroom within a higher education setting. To support student success, institutions have increasingly redesigned their learning spaces to promote active learning. Early initiatives often aimed to facilitate collaborative learning and reduce reliance on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Active Learning, Classroom Environment, Classroom Design
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Sarah T. Zipf; Leqi Li; Gala Campos Oaxaca; Crystal M. Ramsay – Innovative Higher Education, 2025
Historically, classrooms have utilized stationary furniture, facing front toward a centralized instructor position, and limiting student-to-student interactions. Such classrooms often stem from design processes that tend to focus on building codes and feedback from investors, architects, and planners, which leaves little input from instructors and…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Classroom Environment, Classroom Design, Space Utilization
Tommaso Bardelli, Contributor; Sam Johnson, Contributor; Tammy Ortiz, Contributor; Elizabeth Austin, Contributor; Laura Brown, Contributor; Catharine Bond Hill, Contributor; Sindy Lopez, Contributor; Molly McGowan, Contributor; Amy Mielke, Contributor; Ess Pokornowski, Contributor – ITHAKA S+R, 2025
On September 13, 1994, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, commonly known as the 1994 crime bill. The most far-reaching piece of criminal justice legislation Congress ever passed, the bill incentivized states to pass harsher sentencing laws and build more prisons. Among a slate of punitive and…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Higher Education, Correctional Institutions, Educational Facilities
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Michael P. A. Murphy; Andrea Phillipson; Andrew Leger – College Teaching, 2025
Recent years have witnessed the spread of purpose-built active learning classrooms throughout the higher education sector. While these innovative learning spaces are well-suited for a variety of active learning strategies, their lack of a single focal point means they are inconvenient spaces for lecturing. While educational developers often…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students, College Instruction
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Bruner, Justin; Affoo, Rebecca; Dietsch, Angela M. – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2022
The goal of this study was to contribute to research on active learning by addressing the problem of disentangling the effects of classroom architecture, student characteristics, and pedagogical design as they relate to student achievement. The study utilized a quasiexperimental design where data was collected on student perceptions of their…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Academic Achievement, Student Characteristics, Classroom Design
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Mike Streule; Luke McCrone; Yasmin Andrew; Craig Walker – International Journal for Students as Partners, 2022
Engaging with Students as Partners (SaP) in areas of curriculum design and pedagogic consultancy is relatively well established. Here we present a case study of two recent projects at Imperial College London, a research-intensive science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) university, that have extended the SaP model to the…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Student Participation, College Students, Classroom Design
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Laurie O. Campbell; Caitlin Frawley; Glenn W. Lambie; Xueying Gao – Learning Environments Research, 2024
Factors that support learner engagement and achievement are vast. School learning environments can promote care for learners. The present year-long study examined the "Designed Caring Classroom Intervention" in 17 s grade classrooms in a large school district. To examine the effect of the intervention on second grade learners'…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Academic Achievement, Intervention, Classroom Environment
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Mengjiao Yin; Biao Ma; Xianyu Pan; Lanlan Fan – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2024
The relationship between spatial heterogeneity and students' academic performance is a widely researched topic. This study extends the concept of spatial heterogeneity into two categories - allocatable (acquired after birth) and ascribed (determined before birth) - using seating and hometown information as variables in Spatial Durbin Models for…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Academic Achievement, Classroom Design, Attention
Greta Bradley; Daniel Churchill – European Journal of STEM Education, 2023
This paper reports on the study of private theories of Science, Technology, Engineering and Technology ("STEM") teachers and their learning design practices at International Schools in Hong Kong. The literature emphasises that teachers are the key to successfully implementing STEM education. However, most are unprepared and ill-equipped…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Classroom Design, International Schools, Foreign Countries
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Godwin, Karrie E.; Leroux, Audrey J.; Scupelli, Peter; Fisher, Anna V. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2022
Prior laboratory research suggests the visual environment can be a source of distraction for children, reducing attention to instructional tasks and learning outcomes. However, systematic research examining how the visual environment relates to attention in genuine classrooms is rare. In addition, it is unknown what specific aspects of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Attention Control, Classroom Environment, Visual Perception
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Szpytma, Cezary; Szpytma, Magdalena – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
The present educational paradigm, fundamentally unchanged since the 19th century, does not meet 21st-century educational needs. This paradigm shift must be accompanied by a strong educational architecture that fosters the skills needed for 21st-century success including creativity and cultural awareness. The present study investigates the primary…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Case Studies, Elementary Schools, Social Change
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Fride Haram Klykken – Critical Studies in Education, 2024
This paper investigates the material complexity and relational emergence of 'teaching'. Reporting on a video-based ethnographic study of an upper secondary classroom in Norway, the paper centres on the following research questions: Which material-discursive practices 'matter' in upper secondary teaching situations, and how are participants' bodies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Friendship
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Nicholas E. Roseth – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2025
In every music classroom, nonverbal forces--including immediacy, ensemble setups, and teacher use of space--may impact student outcomes. Immediacy refers to a collection of nonverbal behaviors that communicate psychological closeness. The purpose of this survey study was to examine secondary choir teachers' (N = 137) self-reported immediacy…
Descriptors: Singing, Music Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Nonverbal Communication
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Sasson, Irit; Malkinson, Noam; Oria, Tutia – Learning Environments Research, 2022
In recent years, the importance of the pedagogical and physical design of new learning environments has grown. Around the world, innovative pedagogy has been implemented to address, among other things, the development of social skills. In this study, we examined an educational program that is an applied example of the constructivist approach whose…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Classroom Design, Group Unity, Cooperative Learning
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Charteris, Jennifer; Wright, Noeline; Trask, Suzanne; Khoo, Elaine; Page, Angela; Anderson, Joanna; Cowie, Bronwen – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2021
In Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, the impetus to create open learning spaces that afford spatial and pedagogical flexibility have disrupted the nature of teachers' work. In redesigned education facilities, teachers engage in sophisticated processes of collaboration and ongoing teacher professional learning. Moving from traditional classroom…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Figurative Language, Educational Facilities Design
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