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The Classroom Environment

2020
Abstract The classroom environment is more than just the way the desks are arranged and includes the conditions and circumstances that we bring, both as students and as educators. The effective classroom environment is a safe space that welcomes discussion, curiosity, dialogue, and discovery.
S.G. Grant, Bruce A. VanSledright
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The Classroom Environment

The Reading Teacher, 2011
AbstractThe classroom environment is uppermost in teachers' minds at the start of each school year. Designing an effective classroom environment for learning to read and reading is both an art and a science. Aligning physical space with instructional goals involves the flexible use of space that is adapted to instructional needs.
Kathleen Roskos, Susan B. Neuman
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Classroom Psychosocial Environment

The Journal of Educational Research, 1975
AbstractSchool administrators and teachers recognize the pertinence of perceived, classroom environment for student behavior and achievement. To evaluate this environment, the Class Atmosphere Scale (CAS) assesses quantitatively the perceptions held by teacher and students about their common class milieu. A sample of 30 classes (N=509) provides data to
Sam Silbergeld, Gail R. Koenig, Ronald W. Manderscheid   +2 more
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College Classroom Environment

Environment and Behavior, 1981
Effects of classroom physical environment were studied by adding bright wall paint, posters, kites, rugs, softer lighting, cushions, and plants to a college classroom while an identical control classroom was left barren and sterile. Two Introductory Psychology classes (students and instructors) were exposed to both experimental and control classrooms ...
Dorothy D. Wollin, Mary Montagne
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Improving Nursing Education Classroom Environments

Journal of Nursing Education, 1998
ABSTRACT This study describes the first use of a classroom environment questionnaire with a class in nursing education. An instructor of nursing studente monitored classes using such a questionnaire. The questionnaire used was the College and University Classroom Environment Inventory and it was used to obtain practical and useful information
D L, Fisher, C A, Parkinson
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Preferred College Classroom Environment Scale: Creating Positive Classroom Environments

Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2000
The Preferred College Classroom Environment Scale (PCCES) is a valid and reliable instrument to assess the degree to which five dimensions of a conventional college classroom environment help students learn. It was constructed from focus group interviews with over 100 students.
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Classroom environment

Teaching and Teacher Education, 1988
Geneva D. Haertel, Herbert J. Walberg
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Improving the classroom environment

30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Building on A Century of Progress in Engineering Education. Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37135), 2002
The paper summarizes effective teaching techniques for engineering identified during one of the technical sessions of the 1999 Frontiers in Education Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico (A. Klinger, 1999). The paper involves the perspectives of twelve experienced college teachers engaged in a round-table discussion of "Ways to improve a classroom ...
A. Klinger, C.J. Finelli, D.D. Budney
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Classrooms as lexical environments

Language Teaching Research, 1997
In many second/foreign-language classrooms, students are expected to learn much or even most of their vocabulary without explicit instruction, simply through exposure to a rich variety of words in meaningful contexts. In fact, however, there are few studies which would allow us to estimate the number of words learners are typically exposed to in ...
Paul Meara, Patsy M. Lightbown, Randall H. Halter   +2 more
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