{"id":861,"date":"2023-06-05T14:59:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eddesignaward.com\/research\/?p=861"},"modified":"2023-06-05T14:59:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:59:40","slug":"the-effect-of-classroom-environment-on-literacy-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eddesignaward.com\/research\/the-effect-of-classroom-environment-on-literacy-development\/","title":{"rendered":"The effect of classroom environment on literacy development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The physical characteristics of a child\u2019s learning environment can affect health, wellbeing and educational progress. Here we investigate the effect of classroom setting on academic progress in 7\u201310-year-old students comparing reading development in \u201copen-plan\u201d (multiple class groups located within one physical space) and \u201cenclosed-plan\u201d (one class group per space) environments. All learning conditions (class group, teaching personnel, etc.) were held constant throughout, while physical environment was alternated term-by-term using a portable, sound-treated dividing wall.<\/p>\n<p>One hundred and ninety-six students underwent academic, cognitive and auditory assessment at baseline and 146 of these were available for repeat assessment at the completion of 3 school terms, allowing within-child changes across an academic year to be calculated. Reading fluency development (change in words read-per-minute) was greater for the enclosed-classroom phases (<i>P<\/i>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001; 95%CI 3.7, 10.0) and the children who showed the greatest condition difference (i.e. slower rate of development in the open-plan) were those with the worst speech perception in noise and\/or poorest attention skills. These findings highlight the important role classroom setting plays in the academic development of young students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>npj Science of Learning volume 8, Article number: 9 (2023) \/ This is an open access article.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The physical characteristics of a child\u2019s learning environment can affect health, wellbeing and educational progress. Here we investigate the effect of classroom setting on academic progress in 7\u201310-year-old students comparing reading development in \u201copen-plan\u201d (multiple class groups located within one physical space) and \u201cenclosed-plan\u201d (one class group per space) environments. All learning conditions (class group, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eddesignaward.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eddesignaward.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eddesignaward.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eddesignaward.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eddesignaward.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eddesignaward.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/eddesignaward.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eddesignaward.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eddesignaward.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eddesignaward.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}