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Peer reviewedTegano, Deborah W.; And Others – Early Childhood Education Journal, 1996
Summarizes three studies on the effects of physical environment on preschool children's play and cognitive development, and discusses implications for classroom design. Notes that size of play area, and the extent to which the size of structures in that area was proportional to children's size, affected the rate at which children entered complex…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development
Download full textLevine, John M. – 1983
The classroom environment elicits social comparison behavior in which a student uses peers' performance as a gauge for his own self-assessment. Social comparison as it relates to ability is a four phase sequential process. In phase one, stimulation of social comparison is elicited through developmentally-determined cognitive capacities and motives…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages
