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The Impact Of Building Acoustics On Speech Comprehension And Student Achievement, Lily M. Wang
The Impact Of Building Acoustics On Speech Comprehension And Student Achievement, Lily M. Wang
Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications
The movement for improved classroom acoustics has primarily been grounded on studies that show how building acoustics (i.e. background noise levels and room reverberation) affect speech intelligibility, as determined by speech recognition tests. What about actual student learning, though? If students do not understand each spoken word in the classroom perfectly, can they still manage to achieve high scholastic success? This presentation will review two recent studies conducted at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, linking classroom acoustic conditions to student learning outcomes and speech comprehension (rather than simply recognition). In the first, acoustic measurements in two public school districts …