This document is a report of the first year's findings (grade 1) of a longitudinal 3-year study of achievement differences between students in new open plan schools and those in existing "conventional architecture" schools. When tests of reading and mathematics achievement were administered in two open plan and nine "conventional…

This study investigates interaction patterns that occur in an open plan and in a traditional plan school. The objectives of the study were: (1) to investigate some interaction patterns among members of the school populations, (2) to investigate some interaction patterns between the school population and the available physical resources, (3) to…