Lighting and discomfort in the classroom

By Mark Winterbottom, A. Wilkins. 2009

271 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Education, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f9f4326534c4d85ef2467313a30e9dd2cc4e2ab4

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Citations in the corpus

• School building condition, social climate, student attendance and academic achievement: A mediation model (2016, background): “Research has centered on amount of light (illuminance) and type of light (i.e., flicker from fluorescent lighting) because these aspects of lighting are associated with discomfort and can impair performance (Winterbottem & Wilkins, 2009).”
• Self-reported health and comfort of school children in 54 classrooms of 21 Dutch school buildings (2018, background): “Research on lighting has focused on issues related to insufficient daylight in relation to performance and health (for example [33,34]), too much daylight in relation to glare and overheating [35], and choice of colours (for example [36,37]).”