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- Title
The latent four-zone structure in classroom seating space.
- Authors
Kitagawa, Toshiaki
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to extract a latent space structure of classrooms from students seating preferences, and to determine whether classroom division on the basis of latent space structure is useful in predicting actual seating behaviors. The actual seating positions of 151 female junior college students were observed in classrooms once a week for one semester; then students were asked to estimate their seating preference among 49 seating positions in an imaginary classroom. Students did have different preferences for seating positions. A factor analysis suggested that classroom seating space should be divided into four zones: rear, front, center, and sides. A multiple discriminant analysis suggested that the seating positions that students actually took reflected a four-zone structure. Classroom division based on the four-zone structure proved useful in understanding students' seating behaviors.
- Subjects
STUDENT attitudes; CLASSROOMS; BEHAVIORISM (Psychology)
- Publication
Japanese Psychological Research, 1998, Vol 40, Issue 1, p40
- ISSN
0021-5368
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-5884.00073