In Episode 9 of our monthly podcast series The Research Files, Teacher spoke to UK academic Professor Peter Barrett about the results of a study exploring the link between physical classroom design and academic achievement.

As a follow-up, our latest infographic provides a couple of tips from the research that you may find useful when considering classroom displays.

Classroom displays - how much is too much?

Related Teacher content:

Research Files Episode 9: Peter Barrett on classroom design and academic achievement

For more illustrated suggestions related to classroom designs read the Clever Classrooms report (PDF 9.80MB).

The full journal article: The impact of classroom design on pupils' learning: Final results of a holistic, multi-level analysis (published in Building and Environment) is available to download at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2015.02.013 (PDF 635KB)