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Hebert, Elizabeth A. – Educational Leadership, 1998
The organization of space profoundly affects learning. Students feel better connected to a building that anticipates their needs and respects them as individuals. Built in 1971, Crow Island School, in Winnetka, Illinois, is a prize-winning facility that has provided generations of children with windowed classrooms, skylights, adjacent workrooms,…
Descriptors: Building Design, Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Physical Environment
Maiden, Jeffrey; Foreman, Bill A. – School Business Affairs, 1998
Research has shown that a school building's condition affects student achievement and behavior and that certain facility design elements can improve the learning climate. An ideal CDC (cost-design-climate) associative environment has a balanced interrelationship among the three elements. Unnecessarily emphasizing one or more elements may seriously…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Air Conditioning, Building Design, Ceilings
Heubach, Janet G. – 1985
Eighth-grade students were studied to learn how their interpretations of school situations are influenced by behavior and visual space attributes and settings. A variety of studies support the importance of relationships between the person and the learning environment. In this study, it was hypothesized that students would evaluate as more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Standards, Building Design, Educational Environment