Open vs. traditional classrooms
Overview
- Influence: Open vs. traditional classrooms
- Domain: Classroom
- Sub-Domain: Class composition effects
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a small positive impact
- Influence Definition: Open classrooms emerged in the 1960s as a response to more restrictive forms of classroom organization featuring rows of desks and a teacher at the front of the room. Generally, an open classroom provides a flexible space, enabling students to choose various activities and to integrate different learning materials into their study during periods of large or small group instruction. In more recent years, the term used more often is "innovative learning environments" and include multiple teachers with a larger number of students (e.g., 3 teachers with 90 students) in one larger space (often with breakout rooms, etc.) to encourage collaboration and active learning.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 4
- Number of studies: 315
- Number of students: 0
- Number of effects: 333
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.02
- Robustness index: 2
Meta-Analyses
Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
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Evaluation in Education | Peterson | USA | Open versus traditional classrooms | 1980 | Traditional vs. open classrooms | 45 | 0 | 45 | 0.12 |
Dissertation | Madamba | USA | Meta-analysis on the effects of open and traditional schooling on the teaching-learning of reading | 1981 | Traditional vs. open classrooms on reading | 72 | 0 | 72 | -0.03 |
Conference paper | Hetzel | USA | A quantitative synthesis of the effects of open education | 1980 | Traditional vs. open classrooms | 45 | 0 | 45 | -0.13 |
Review of Educational Research | Giaconia & Hedges | USA | Identifying Features of Effective Open Education | 1982 | Traditional vs. open classrooms | 153 | 0 | 171 | 0.06 |
TOTAL/AVERAGE | 315 | 0 | 333 | 0.00 |