Numerous studies have demonstrated that the significant impact of sound on people's
performance, especially in mental and physical health. With a focus on students' learning …

Purpose: Good verbal signals and low background noise are key factors for all children to
maximize understanding of what is being taught. Classroom shape, surroundings, and even …

The main goal of the present research is to gain a better understanding of the consequences
of background noise on learning, with a specific focus on how noise may impair maths …

Several studies have shown so far that poor acoustics inside classrooms negatively affects
the teaching and learning processes, especially at the lowest grades of education. However …

The present study aimed to investigate the effects of type of noise, age, and gender on
children's speech intelligibility (SI) and sentence comprehension (SC). The experiment was …

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 …

Comprehending the teacher's message when other students are chatting is challenging.
Even though the sound environment is the same for a whole class, differences in individual …

Introduction Children experience unique challenges when listening to speech in noisy
environments. The present study used pupillometry, an established method for quantifying …

Obtaining adequate numeracy skills and listening comprehension skills at primary school
are vital for children's future success. However, classrooms are often noisy and reverberant …

Background noise makes listening effortful and may lead to fatigue. This may compromise
classroom learning, especially for children with a non-native background. In the current …