The poor acoustic quality in educational buildings is a prevalent issue that can significantly
influence teachers' and students' health, comfort, and performance. An integrative literature …

Enhanced speech intelligibility in realistic acoustic scenarios guarantees effective
communication. Noise and reverberation degrade speech intelligibility, but the combined …

The acoustic quality of classrooms is crucial for children's listening skills and consequently
for their learning. Listening abilities in kids are still developing, and an environment with …

The assessment of the acoustic quality of learning spaces traditionally concerns rooms'
objective parameters and not the dynamical behavior of students during lectures. In the …

Today, millions of standardized English as a foreign language proficiency tests are
administered globally each year. A large portion of this is conducted as a paper-based test …

This project acquired sound levels logged across six school days and impulse responses in
220 classrooms across four K–12 grades. Seventy-four percent met reverberation time …

Providing students with an adequate acoustic environment is crucial for ensuring speech
intelligibility in primary school classrooms. Two main approaches to control acoustics in …

Several room acoustic parameters have to be considered in ordinary public rooms, such as
offices and classrooms, in order to present the actual conditions, thus increasing demands …

Children spend a considerable amount of time in educational institutions, where they are
constantly exposed to noisy sound environments, which has detrimental effects on children's …

The most common acoustical treatment of public rooms, such as schools, offices, and
healthcare premises, is a suspended absorbent ceiling. The non-uniform distribution of the …