Considerations for a classroom lighting system include the quality of the system in terms of improved seeability, operating efficiency, and energy savings. (Author/MLF)

Merrimack College in North Andover (Massachusetts) has reduced the cost of lighting its physical education center by over 70 percent; the new lighting system, which uses metal halide lamps, has also doubled the illumination in the building, attracting revenue-producing activities. (MCG)

This paper describes how the visual environment--what we see when we look--can be used to develop both visual and verbal literacy, including aesthetic appreciation, comprehension, and vocabulary.

By beautification of their educational surroundings students make their learning experience more stimulating. (RK)

The author discusses some environmental phenomena that should be taken into consideration when designing facilities for instructional media. (AK)

Outlines the critical space dimensions for checking or designing a-v facilities. (Author)

Developed and tested a method for measuring viewers' comprehension of a museum exhibit. Results with 30 undergraduate students show agreement among participants on the importance of base units and the ranking of subtopics, but there was less agreement on overall exhibit focus. (SLD)

Recent research indicates that by 4.5 months, infants use shape and size information as the basis for individuating objects but that it is not until 11.5 months that they use color information for this purpose. The present experiments investigated the extent to which infants' sensitivity to color information could be increased through select…

This study selected 28 illustrative examples of the visual culture in comparative education used since the 1960s. Journals examined are the "Comparative Education Review"; "Comparative Education"; "Compare"; and others. From visual analysis of these sources, four scopic regimes or visual subcultures are identified.…

This paper reviews the literature on visual literacy over the past 25 years. The following areas of visual literacy are reviewed: theoretical foundations of visual literacy; establishing a research agenda; visual vocabulary; visual learning/visual teaching; visual thinking; visual-verbal relationship; and visible language. (Contains 158…

This paper is a report on a decade of teaching visual literacy at the American University (Washington, D.C.). Visual literacy is defined as an awareness that comes with appropriate development of basic visual and aural competencies. The 15 reasons for studying visual literacy are perception, drawing, expression, brain awareness, design elements,…

Research supported by the National Research Council (Grant APA-179) and the Medical Research Council of Canada (Grant MA-2653).

The effects of varied lighting and coloring in the classroom environment were examined on the behavior of seven severely handicapped 8 to 11 year olds with behavior problems. Analysis of changes in systolic blood pressure indicated that Ss were more comfortable and relaxed in the experimental room (in which the fluorescent lights were replaced by…

An application method for evaluating the visual significance of reflected glare is described, based upon a number of decisions with respect to the relative importance of various aspects of visual performance. A standardized procedure for evaluating the overall effectiveness of lighting from photometric data on materials or installations is needed…