Should we ditch big exam halls? Our research shows how high ceilings are associated with a lower score
- Written by: Isabella Bower, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of South Australia
Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 1984.Museums Victoria, CC BYCan you remember your last in-person exam? You’re waiting outside the venue with your identification, pens and back-up pens. Everyone is nervously looking at their notes or avoiding eye contact.
The doors open and you enter a cavernous space of numbered tables in rows. You...