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High exam hall ceilings are correlated with a lower exam score (theconversation.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by brisk@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone
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[–] Eol@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Are they just bigger schools with shittier student to teacher ratios?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago

There are a bunch of factors that they need to control for, which they seem to acknowledge as an area for future study.

My first thought was similar to yours, but had more to do with the amount of people in the room of the exam rather than during the term.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This was all Uni SA

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So replace OP's schools with subjects...

[–] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We looked at the results from 15,400 psychology undergraduates at one Australian university over eight years (2011–19), and across three campuses.

It's the same course. It's there in the article.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

Fair cop, you got me.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago

Science coms whinge: not a single graph! Come on!

Otherwise, my own experience … exam hall exams are awful … they’re distracting, the number of people around is distracting, they’re often either cold or warm … this result makes sense.

I’ve taken exams in smaller spaces and they definitely felt more calm.

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So if you live in a miners cottage with 9ft ceilings you’re destined to fail? /s

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I clarified the title and broke your joke

[–] MinFapper@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What was it before?

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

I added "exam hall"

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Higher ceiling means larger room. Larger room means larger class size. It's well established that larger class sizes are detrimental to learning.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Larger halls doesn't necessarily mean larger class sizes. I believe UniSA uses amalgamated exam halls; they fill the same hall to capacity with whatever classes have an examination requirement.

[–] eatthecake@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I had exams in the building pictured at the top of the article. On one occasion it was 6°C and I struggled to write for the whole exam. That building is fucking freezing and the heaters set up around the outer walls did nothing. After the exam it took me several hours huddled in front of a heater to stop shaking. A nice warm classroom would have helped everyone.