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Positive effects of indoor environmental conditions on students and their performance in higher education classrooms

Brink, Henk Willem (Facility Management); Krijnen, Wim (Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care And Nursing); Loomans, Marcel G.L.C.; Mobach, Mark P. (Facility Management); Kort, Helianthe S.M.

This study explores if multiple alterations of the classrooms' indoor environmental conditions, which lead to environmental conditions meeting quality class A of Dutch guidelines, result in a positive effect on students' perceptions and performance. A field study, with a between-group experimental design, …

2023-04-25AlgemeenArtikel

Examining in-class activities to facilitate academic achievement in higher education

Brink, Henk Willem (Facility Management); Loomans, Marcel G.L.C.; Mobach, Mark P.; Kort, Helianthe S.M.

There is an increasing interest in how to create an effective and comfortable indoor environment for lecturers and students in higher education. To achieve evidence-based improvements in the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) of higher education learning environments, this research aimed to gain new …

2023-03-07AlgemeenProefschrift

Positive effects of indoor environmental conditions on students and their performance in higher education classrooms: A between-groups experiment

Henk W. Brink (Onderzoeker); W.P. Krijnen (Onderzoeker); Marcel Loomans (Onderzoeker); Mark Mobach (Onderzoeker); Helianthe Kort (Lector)

This study explores if multiple alterations of the classrooms' indoor environmental conditions, which lead to environmental conditions meeting quality class A of Dutch guidelines, result in a positive effect on students' perceptions and performance. A field study, with a between-group experimental design, …

2023GezondheidArtikel

Light conditions in the nursing home.

H.S.M. Kort; Joost van Hoof (Docent); M. Sinoo

Purpose In the Netherlands, the prevalence of visual impairments is the highest among the subgroup of nursing home residents. Over 40 percent are estimated to have visual impairments1. Older adults experience visual problems due to biological aging or eye disease2. These problems can affect several visual …

2012AlgemeenArtikel

Lighting conditions for older adults in the nursing home: Assessment of environmental illuminances and colour temperature

Joost van Hoof (Docent); M.M. Sinoo; H.S.M. Kort

Over 40% of nursing home residents in the Netherlands are estimated to have visual impairments. In this study, light conditions in Dutch nursing homes were assessed in terms of horizontal and vertical illuminances and colour temperature. Results showed that in the seven nursing homes vertical illuminances …

2011AlgemeenArtikel

Light conditions for older adults in the nursing home: Assessment of environmental illuminances and colour temperature

Marianne Sinoo (Lid Lectoraat); Joost van Hoof (Lid Lectoraat); Helianthe Kort (Lector)

Over 40% of nursing home residents in the Netherlands are estimated to have visual impairments. In this study, light conditions in Dutch nursing homes were assessed in terms of horizontal and vertical illuminances and colour temperature. Results showed that in the seven nursing homes vertical illuminances …

2011GezondheidArtikel

Light conditions for older adults in the nursing home