Do you blame the students? No…

2000/01/16 Kortabarria Olabarria, Beñardo - Elhuyar Zientzia

• Fisika

The notes are bad and often students have to hear gallants. Surely in most cases parents will not be mistaken, but carefully, the fault may not be of the children, but of the poor acoustics of the classroom. In fact, recently a group of experts from Ohio have analyzed 32 primary classrooms in the area. Of all of them only 2 met the minimum acoustic requirements. Therefore, in this situation the teacher is usually not able to correctly transmit his messages, of course, the student less to correctly receive the message.

According to the research they have done in Ohio, if the student does not listen correctly to the professor's explanations, he has many chances of being mistaken in his studies. Often sound bounces off the walls in a very rare way, disguises the meaning of words and prevents understanding. Younger children have real problems in these cases, as they are still learning to speak, while older children, having a richer vocabulary, somehow solve these problems of understanding.

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