Student Test Scores Suffer from Even Subtle Background Noise
Sunday, October 30, 2011 - 23:30
in Psychology & Sociology
According to research on third- and fifth-grade classrooms presented at the 162nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), fifth-grade students were found to have lower reading test scores in classrooms with higher background noise. A similar negative trend was observed between the fifth-grade language achievement test scores and background noise levels.