Published in Psychological Science ... gains than when the decorations were removed. "Young children spend a lot of time -- usually the whole day -- in the same classroom, and we have shown ...

But a recent study by Carnegie Mellon University shows that decorations ... taught six science lessons on unfamiliar topics. Three lessons were taught in a colorfully decorated classroom, and ...

published May 2014 in Psychological Science, was one of the first to examine how decorations impact learning. It found that when kindergartners were taught in a highly decorated classroom ...

Classroom objects appealing to only some students (e.g. too many science fiction objects in a computer science classroom) prevent students who do not identify with those objects from enrolling in ...