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Publications Details for Grant Number R835633

Evidence-Based Interactions between Indoor Environmental Factors andTheir Effects on K-12 Student Achievement

RFA: Healthy Schools: Environmental Factors, Children’s Health and Performance, and Sustainable Building Practices (2013)

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Abstract Brill LC, Wang LM. Comparison of occupied and unoccupied noise levels in K-12 classrooms. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2016;139(4):1979. R835633 (2016)
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Abstract Brill LC, Wang LM. Compiled acoustic and indoor environmental condition data from 220 K-12 classrooms. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2017;141(5):3480. R835633 (2017)
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Abstract Wang LM, Brill LC, Lester H, Bovaird J. Relations between acoustic quality and student achievement in K-12 classrooms. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2017;141(5):3966. R835633 (2017)
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Dissertation/Thesis Brill LC. Exploring the correlation between occupied and unoccupied noise levels in K-12 classrooms. M.S. Thesis. Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, May 2017. R835633 (2017)
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Dissertation/Thesis Deng S. Evidence-based association of indoor air quality and thermal comfort in elementary and secondary classrooms with students’ absenteeism and academic performance. Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of Engineering, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, May 2017. R835633 (2017)
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Journal Article Deng S, Zou B, Lau J. The Adverse Associations of Classrooms’ Indoor Air Quality and Thermal Comfort Conditions on Students’ Illness Related Absenteeism between Heating and Non-Heating Seasons—A Pilot Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021;18(4):1500. R835633 (Final)
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Journal Article Kabirikopaei A, Lau J. Uncertainty analysis of various CO 2-Based tracer-gas methods for estimating seasonal ventilation rates in classrooms with different mechanical systems. Building and Environment 2020;179(107003). R835633 (Final)
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Journal Article Kabirikopaei A, Lau J, Nord J, Boviard J. Identifying the K-12 classrooms' indoor air quality factors that affect student academic performance. Science of The Total Environment 2021;786. R835633 (Final)
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Journal Article Kuhlenengel M, Konstantzos I, Waters C. The Effects of the Visual Environment on K-12 Student Achievement. Buildings 2021;11(11). R835633 (Final)
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Journal Article Lau J, Wang LM, Waters C, Bovaird J. A need for evidence-based and multidisciplinary research to study the effects of the interaction of school environmental conditions on student achievement. Indoor and Built Environment 2016;25(6):869-871. R835633 (2016)
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Journal Article Paine JA, Wang M. Investigation of sound level variations in occupied K-12 classrooms. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2017;142:2543 R835633 (2018)
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Journal Article Smith KH, Wang LM. Exploring relationships between measured acoustic, lighting, and indoor air quality metrics logged in K-12 classroomsThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2018;143:1894 R835633 (2018)
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Journal Article Smith KH, Arthur A, Bovaird J, Wang LM. Effects of measured acoustic and other indoor environment factors on student achievement in K-12 classrooms. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2018;144:1894 R835633 (2018)
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Journal Article Wang L, Brill L. Speech and noise levels measured in occupied K–12 classrooms. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2021;150(2). R835633 (Final)
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Presentation Brill LC, Wang LM. Exploring correlation between sound levels in active occupied classrooms and unoccupied classrooms. Presented at the 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI, November 28-December 2, 2016. R835633 (2017)
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Presentation Brill LC, Wang LM. How the use of different time sampling windows impacts measured noise metrics in K-12 classrooms. Presented at the 22nd International Congress on Acoustics, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 5-9, 2016. R835633 (2016)
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Presentation Guha, Waters C. Quantifying view: a way forward to statistically analyzing the effect of view on human performance. Presented at the Council for Optical Radiation Measurements (CORM) 2016 Annual Technical Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, May 15-18, 2016. R835633 (2016)
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Presentation Kabiri A, Waters C. An Investigation of School Environmental Effects on Student Achievement. Presented at ASHRAE Annual Conference, SGPC 10 Technical Committee meeting, June 24, 2018. R835633 (2018)
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Presentation Kuhlenengel M, Waters C. An investigation of school lighting effects on student achievement. Presented at the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) 2016 Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, October 23-25, 2016. R835633 (2016)
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Presentation Kuhlenengel M, Brill L, Deng S, Lester H, Bovaird J, Lau J, Wang L, Waters C. An investigation of school environmental effects on student achievement. Presented at the 2017 Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) Conference, Oklahoma City, OK, April 11-13 2017. R835633 (2017)
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Presentation Lau J, Deng S, Lester H, Bovaird J, Wang L, Waters C. Do the students in high performance incentive (HPI) schools demonstrate more academic improvement than their peers in non-HPI schools? Presented at IAQ 2016, Alexandria, VA, September 12-14, 2016. R835633 (2016)
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Presentation Lee J, Brill LC, Wang LM, Lester H, Bovaird J. Statistically defining the construct of “acoustic quality” in K-12 classrooms. Presented at the 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI, November 28-December 2, 2016. R835633 (2017)
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Presentation Wang LM, Lau J, Waters C, Bovaird J. Evidence-based interactions between indoor environmental factors and their effects on K-12 student achievement. Presented at the 2015 Research Summit on Childhood Healthy and School Buildings, Washington, DC, November 17, 2015. R835633 (2016)
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Presentation Wang LM. E10:Can School Buildings Make Kids Healthy and Smart? Innovative Explorations and Findings by EPA's School Health Research Grantees. Presented at Greenbuild 2018, Chicago. R835633 (2018)
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