Share Paper: Effects of Connected Lighting with Color Kinetic Integration and Normal Lighting on Grade Three Students’ Reading Achievement as Measured by Oral Reading Fluency and Comprehension Scores

  1. Michael Mott, The University of Mississippi, United States
Monday, April 11 3:00 PM-4:00 PM Silver Pearl Ballroom 1

Abstract: A quasi-experiment using four 3rd grade classrooms (two with connected lighting with color kinetic integration - teacher controlled tunable (2700k-6500k) white dynamic lighting with three settings: normal, calm and focus) and two classrooms with “normal” light (2700k) will involve teachers in the two dynamic lighting classrooms using the “focus” setting for all reading instruction and all three classrooms using “normal” lighting during three phases of testing of oral reading fluency and comprehension. Reading scores will be examined to discern possible lighting effects on reading achievement.