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The Impact Of Eliminating Extraneous Sound And Light On Students' Achievement: An Empirical Study, Rajarajeswari Venkata Surya Mangipudy Jul 2010

The Impact Of Eliminating Extraneous Sound And Light On Students' Achievement: An Empirical Study, Rajarajeswari Venkata Surya Mangipudy

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The impact of eliminating extraneous sound and light on students’ achievement was investigated under four conditions: Light and Sound controlled, Sound Only controlled, Light Only controlled and neither Light nor Sound controlled. Group, age and gender were the control variables. Four randomly selected groups of high school freshmen students with different backgrounds were the participants in this study. Academic achievement was the dependent variable measured on a pretest, a posttest and a post-posttest, each separated by an interval of 15 days. ANOVA was used to test the various hypotheses related to the impact of eliminating sound and light on student …