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User assessment of media presentation rooms

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Will student users prefer media presentation rooms specially designed, built, and equipped according to well-established and accepted environmental design and display system engineering principles to other, non-environmentally controlled media classrooms? The 503 university students questioned in this study did. The author concluded that given the proper instrument, students are capable of reliably evaluating factors in their learning environments — such things as acoustics, thermal conditions, visual display systems, and lighting — and that such factors are important to them.

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  1. Division of Instructional Development, School of Education, Boston University, 765 Commonwealth Ave., 02215, Boston, MA

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The author expresses thanks to John Fritsch, Ron Mistretta, and Jerome Glickman for preparing the graphics, Gail Kelly and Connie Wiegeshaus for giving general assistance throughout the study, and Louis Aikman and Dan Burton for reviewing and editing the final manuscript. A special note of appreciation is due Michael McCoy, who supervised data collection and personally handled the lengthy statistical analysis.

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McVey, G.F. User assessment of media presentation rooms. ECTJ 27, 121–147 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02765334

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