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This research project investigated the influence of the physical environment of the classroom on students' behaviour, including concentration, attitudes, motivation and self-esteem. It focuses on independent variables such as the classroom size and density, design and architecture, information density, the comfort and positions of chairs, privacy, location and noise, and secondarily the outside space, and the surrounding social and cultural environment.

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