A new article based on Lauren Ronsse’s PhD work has just come out in Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazine: “Classroom Acoustics Affect Student Achievement”! There has been a great deal of previous research, indicating how noise in classrooms can impact speech intelligibility; Lauren has taken that link further and shown how it can have an impact on student achievement scores in reading and language areas. A related article on Lauren’s research may be found through the UNL Digital Commons.
Lauren graduated with her PhD this past May, and is now completing a postdoc at U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois.
Lily Wang and Lauren Ronsse at May 2011 Commencement
