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.

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	First Author's Country	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Evaluation in Education	Peterson	USA	Open versus traditional classrooms	1980	Traditional vs. open classrooms	45	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	72	-0.03
Conference paper	Hetzel	USA	A quantitative synthesis of the effects of open education	1980	Traditional vs. open classrooms	45	45	-0.13
Review of Educational Research	Giaconia & Hedges	USA	Identifying Features of Effective Open Education	1982	Traditional vs. open classrooms	153	171	0.06
TOTAL/AVERAGE						315	333	0.00