Exam halls with high ceilings linked to worse academic outcomes

Effect persists even after controlling for numerous variables, leaving researchers to puzzle over how brain and body are affected by large rooms

Published on
July 3, 2024
Last updated
July 6, 2024
Juliette Rowsell
Empty exam room for adults exam at State Railway of Thailand
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Reader's comments (2)

#1 Submitted by m.... on July 3, 2024 - 11:33am
Perhaps it is more an effect of the unnatural environment of the traditional examination hall rather than merely the height of its ceiling. We don't generally study in serried ranks at small wobbly tables all facing in the same direction, not even if we like to study in a library, so why should we be expected to demonstrate the results of our studies thus?
#2 Submitted by donnew@... on July 3, 2024 - 12:05pm
How much worse?

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