7/28/2019 CaseStudy Epsom and Ewell High School INT
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Project ino
Customer
Epsom and Ewell High School
Location
Epsom, Surrey, UK
Philips Products
SchoolVision
Research Partner
City University London
BackgroundEpsom and Ewell High School is the rst school in the
UK to have a
SchoolVision lighting system tted to improve the learning
environment or pupils. And results rom a recently released pilot
study
show that the Philips SchoolVision lighting system positively
impacts
pupils concentration levels.
The solutionSchoolVision has been specically designed to enhance
the learning
environment in schools. Lighting has been shown to have a
signicant
eect on our mood, our energy levels and our ability to
concentrate.
Oering our dierent light settings, SchoolVision is based on the
idea
that dierent tasks require dierent levels o
energy/concentration.
SchoolVisions our settings - Normal, Energy, Focus and Calm
support the rhythm o activity within the classroom through
changing
patterns o warm light and daylight. SchoolVision allows the
teacher to
control the classroom atmosphere and create exactly the
right
ambience and mood - whatever the time o day, whatever the
lesson.
In the Normal setting, standard light levels help pupils to pay
atten-
tion; suitable or regular classroom activities. The cool resh
light in the
Energy setting helps invigorate pupils early morning or ater
lunch. For
challenging tasks, tests or exams the resh, bright light in the
Focus
setting aids concentration. And nally, the warm light in the
Calm
setting brings a relaxing ambience to individual work or quiet
time.
SchoolVision was installed in two o the schools science
laboratories
beore the start o term in September 2010. Since then, City
University
London has carried out a series o standard D2 Test Trials; a
standard
psychometric test to measure concentration, as well as ocus
group
research with teachers and pupils.
The study has delivered the ol lowing results:
Year 7 pupils in one of the SchoolVision classrooms saw their
scores
on the D2 tests increase by 17 points (D2 test mean percentile
score)
Year 7 pupils in the other SchoolVision classroom improved
their
scores by 40 points (D2 test mean percentile score)
A control group demonstrated no improvement in concentration
levels over the same time rame
Commenting on how SchoolVision benets both teachers and
pupils,
lead researcher Dr Erosyni Konstantinou rom City University
Londons
Centre or Perormance at Work, highlights that, more than
anything,
dierent students have dierent learning needs.
An adjustable, exible lighting system that can be modied to
acilitate the diverse preerences o the students is ideal or
improved
learning in the class room. On the whole, in qualitative
interviews,
both students and teachers noted how the lighting changes
positively
impacted the mood in the classroom. The benets associated with
the
dierent SchoolVision lighting settings included better
concentration,
increased alertness, enhanced efciency and a calmer mood
which
indicate that the SchoolVision can be the beginning to a new way
o
teaching and learning or uture student generations, concludes
Dr
Konstantinou.
The ndings echo those rom other research into the eects o
the
SchoolVision lighting system. A year long study in a primary
school in
Hamburg, Germany ound that, with the SchoolVision lighting
system,
pupil reading speeds increased by 35%, requency o errors ell
by
almost 45% and restlessness was reduced by 75%.
Pupils concentration levels improve
with Philips new classroom lighting
system
