SynthesisIndoor air2021
Classrooms' indoor environmental conditions affecting the academic achievement of students and teachers in higher education: A systematic literature review.
Synthesis in Indoor air, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 142 citations in OpenAlex.
- Climate, Classrooms, and Children: A Systematic Review of Temperature-Related Impacts on Academic Performance.The Journal of school health · 2026Pooled it
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- Investigating the Combined Effect of Artificial Light at Night and Noise on Sleep Quality of High School Students.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- A dataset on occupant satisfaction with the indoor environmental quality in Belgian classrooms.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Functional, emotional, and physical dimensions of voice fatigue among music teachers at a private arts university in Sichuan, China: a cross-sectional survey.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of enhanced filtration interventions for improving indoor air quality in child-serving facilities.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
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- Racial and Ethnic Inequities to Cumulative Environmental and Occupational Impacts in Michigan.GeoHealth · 2025Article
- The influence of indoor temperature and noise on autistic individuals.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Measuring COSensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- [Advances of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound for treatment of musculoskeletal disorders in the past decade].Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University · 2025Review
- Teachers' perceptions of classroom climate and wellbeing: the role of physical classroom conditions in Chile.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties of the newly developed self-report environmental determinants of health questionnaire (EDH-Q): development and validation.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Home indoor air quality and cognitive function over one year for people working remotely during COVID-19.Building and environment · 2024Article
- Comprehensive analysis of classroom microclimate in context to health-related national and international indoor air quality standards.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- How teacher behaviors and perceptions, air change rates, and portable air purifiers affect indoor air quality in naturally ventilated schools.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Structural Relationships between Environmental Factors, Psychological Health, and Academic Performance in Medical Students Engaged in Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Emotional responses of college students to filtered fluorescent lighting in a classroom (v3).Health psychology research · 2023Article
- Workplace impact on employees: A Lifelines Corona Research Initiative on the return to work.PloS one · 2023Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
This study reports the outcomes of a systematic literature review, which aims to determine the influence of four indoor environmental parameters - indoor air, thermal, acoustic, and lighting conditions -on the quality of teaching and learning and on students' academic achievement in schools for higher education, defined as education at a college or university. By applying the Cochrane Collaboration Method, relevant scientific evidence was identified by systematically searching in multiple databases. After the screening process, 21 publications of high relevance and quality were included. The collected evidence showed that the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) can contribute positively to the quality of learning and short-term academic performance of students. However, the influence of all parameters on the quality of teaching and the long-term academic performance could not be determined yet. Students perform at their best in different IEQ conditions, and these conditions are task-dependent, suggesting that classrooms which provide multiple IEQ classroom conditions facilitate different learning tasks optimally. In addition, the presented evidence illuminates how to examine the influence of the IEQ on users. Finally, this information supports decision-makers in facility management and building systems engineering to improve the IEQ, and by doing so, allow teachers and students to perform optimally.
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