Effects of Color and Light on Selected Elementary Students [microform] / Ellen Mannel Grangaard
- Bib ID:
- 5583435
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Grangaard, Ellen Mannel
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED383445
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1993
- 183 p.
- Summary:
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This study compared children's off-task behavior and physiological response in a normal elementary classroom setting with those in a prescribed classroom environment. In the prescribed environment, the colors of the classroom walls were changed from brown and off-white to blue, while Duro-test Vita-lite fluorescent tubes without diffusers replaced the standard cool-white fluorescent tubes with diffusers in the lighting fixtures. Eleven first-graders took part in the study, which measured their off-task behaviors, blood pressure, and pulse twice each day at the same time each day for 10-day periods in the original classroom environment, then in the prescribed environment, and back in the original environment. Results indicated that off-task behaviors, as recorded by three observers, dropped 24 percent after the change from the normal to the prescribed environment, and that systolic blood pressure readings dropped 9 percent after the change. Blood pressure readings demonstrated a gradual increase after the return to the normal environment. (Observer credentials, and blood pressure and pulse readings are appended. Contains 126 references.) (MDM)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Nevada. For related document, see ED 382 381.
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- Publication date:
- 1993
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