CLASSROOM SEATING AND ACHIEVEMENT Seating …

CLASSROOM SEATING AND ACHIEVEMENT . SEATING arrangements that promote positive academic and behavioural outcomes: a review of empirical research RACHEL WANNARKA and KATHY RUHL. SEATING arrangements are important CLASSROOM setting edgeable about setting events so that they can apply this events because they have the potential to help prevent knowledge to everyday CLASSROOM situations. problem behaviours that decrease student attention and diminish available instructional time. The purpose of A wide range of stimulus conditions fall into the category of CLASSROOM environmental variables and setting events. Some this synthesis of empirical literature is to determine of these conditions are temperature, lighting (Granstrom, which arrangements of desks best facilitate positive 1996), SEATING arrangement, noise level, and the presence or academic and behavioural outcomes for primary absence of peers or adults. Of particular interest is SEATING through secondary high school students with a range of arrangement because variables related to SEATING arrange- characteristics.

and the question-asking patterns of ten-year-olds. They found that students asked their teacher significantly more questions when they were seated in a semi-circle than in rows. Finally, in the only study of its kind, Bennett and Blundell (1983) looked at both the quantity and the quality of work producedby10-and11-year-oldstudentsseatedinrowsand

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