I guess I'd have a few questions about the "natural light"
study (not the beverage) before offering explanations:
1) Were the natural-light (NL) and non-natural-light (NNL)
classrooms equally bright? That is, was the difference
between light *sources* or light *intensities*?
2) Were the students in the NL and NNL classrooms from
the same schools, or was this a between-school effect?
3) Were the NNL classrooms deficient in any other ways
(old/uncomfortable chairs, sub-optimal seating arrangements
for viewing the board or hearing the instructor, etc.)?
As I teach at an urban university, there really aren't any
trees around under which to conduct outdoor classes,
so all of mine remain indoors. Plus I use the chalkboard
and overheads an awful lot, which would be tough to do
outdoors.
-Mike
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