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Direct linkDabae 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
Nicholas Stock – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
This article begins by considering the radical changes that occurred in architecture throughout the twentieth century due to the influence of Le Corbusier and the ensuing movement of modernism. Though the building of schools was embroiled in this architectural movement, the classrooms within them remained broadly the same as they had been in the…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Research, Classrooms, Lighting
Rutanen, Niina – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2012
This qualitative case study approaches early childhood education and care practices from a socio-spatial point of view. One Finnish daycare group for one- to three-year-olds participated in the study. The ethnographic observations from the practices are analyzed together with the ECE practitioners' audio-recorded team meetings and video-elicited…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Caregivers, Preschool Children, Child Care Centers
Owens, Cheris – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The question of whether teachers' beliefs match their educational philosophies and are seen in their practice is an important area of research inquiry. Using a mixed methods design, this research study investigated whether there was such a match between a teacher's educational philosophy and his/her use of classroom physical space and layout. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers
Herzog, Serge – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2007
Scholarship on factors that promote or hinder academic success of college students abounds, much of it focusing on learning gains and institutional retention of first-year students (Reason, Terenzini, and Domingo, 2006; Terenzini and Reason, 2005; Pascarella and Terenzini, 2005; Braxton, 2000; Astin, 1993; Tinto, 1987). More recently,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Classroom Research, Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment
Kaya, Naz; Burgess, Brigitte – Environment and Behavior, 2007
Students' degree of territoriality based on gender and seat preferences in different types of classroom arrangements was studied. The types of classroom arrangements included rows of tablet-arm chairs, U-shaped, clusters, and rows of tables with individual chairs. The study was carried out through a survey at a large public institution in the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, College Students, Higher Education, Student Behavior
Jabker, Eugene H. – Illinois School Research, 1972
If teacher training and certification is to be competency based, those competencies will need to be very carefully described. The author contends that in days to come classroom management will be crucial. (Author)
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Peer reviewedWeinstein, Carol S.; Woolfolk, Anita E. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1981
The contention that classroom design influences impression formation has not been empirically tested. The purpose of this article is to bring to the attention of educational psychologists the possibilities for research in this area. The paper summarizes the findings of some initial investigations and suggests directions for future study.…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
Download full textSOMMER, ROBERT – 1965
A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENTS UPON STUDENT PARTICIPATION AND INTERRELATIONSHIPS. AN EXPERIMENTAL CLASS IN INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY WAS FORMED WITH AN ENROLLMENT OF 144 STUDENTS. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE EXPERIMENTAL CLASS AND OTHER CLASSES WAS THAT THE ROOM SELECTION HAD BEEN PREARRANGED…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Furniture
Peer reviewedNeuman, Susan B.; Roskos, Kathy – Reading Teacher, 1990
Describes how play centers can be enriched in the functional uses of print. Details some of the effects observed on the frequency and quality of literacy activities in the spontaneous play of 37 preschoolers. (MG)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
American School Board Journal, 1971
Describes a classroom innovation: truncated octahedrons, individually constructed honeycomb" cubicles designed to house one student each. (EA)
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Furniture, Classroom Research
Walberg, Herbert J. – Sch Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Distance
Peer reviewedSusi, Frank D. – Art Education, 1989
Looks at the impact of the classroom environment on student emotions and behavior, offering suggestions for using the physical features of the environment to calm or stimulate students. Shows how the factors of environmental arousal, classroom robustness, and spatial settings may be used to create art classrooms that minimize chances for…
Descriptors: Art Education, Classroom Communication, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment
Wynn, Ruth L.; And Others – 1991
This study was a joint undertaking of interior environmental designers and a child developmentalist. The goal of the study was to increase peer interation between children in two classes held in one classroom. Children were observed for 7 weeks, in three periods: weeks 2 and 3 (time 1); weeks 4 and 5 (time 2); and weeks 6 and 7 (time 3). Observers…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Interior Design
Peer reviewedParkay, Forrest W.; Oaks, Merrill M.; Peters, Donald C., Jr. – T.H.E. Journal, 2000
Discusses the use of interactive television (ITV) in higher education and describes graduate courses taught with ITV at Washington State University. Highlights include problems encountered with ITV in traditional classrooms; criteria for evaluating the appropriateness of ITV classrooms; and guidelines for the development of effective ITV…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Evaluation Criteria
