• Fire Protection Technology
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• s.42
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• pp.17-25
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• 2007

쾌적하고 명료성이 높은 교실내의 음향환경은 학생들의 학업 성취도 및 교사의 언어전달 이해 향상을 이룩할 수 있는 중요한 사항이다. 이러한 우수한 교육환경을 위해서는 우선 우리나라의 교실 음향 실태 파악과 함께 교육시설의 음향상태 및 소음에 의한 학업 성취도, 심리적, 사회적 영향에 대한 정량적 조사가 이루어 져야 한다. 국내 교육시설의 음향 실태 파악을 통해 교육시설에서의 음향 및 소음 기준을 수립하여 교육시설내의 음환경 개선을 추진해야 한다. 교실 음향개선을 합리적으로 평가할 수 있는 지표로서 잔향시간과 배경소음이 가장 중요한 요소로 알려져 있다. 교실의 우수한 음환경을 위해 적절한 잔향시간은 $0.4\sim0.6$초, 배경소음은 NC-$25\sim30$수준이 확보되어야 하는 것으로 조사되었다. 또한 교사의 음성레벨과 배경소음과의 비(S/N비)는 최소 10 dB이상 되어야 강의 내용 전달이 가능하며, 각종 기계설비에서 발생되는 소음 및 진동은 저소음 기기 선정을 통해 최소화하여야 한다. 인접 실에서 발생되는 소음을 충분히 차단하기 위해서는 차음성능 우수한 구조의 벽계로 개선되어야 하며, 기밀성이 높은 출입문사용과 적절한 출입구 배치를 통해 인접한 교실로의 소음 전달을 최소화 할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.293-296
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• 2001

1990년대 중반 이후 우리나라 초등학교 교실은 열린교육과 다양성을 추구하는 새로운 열린교실을 표방하고 진행되고 있다. 또한 건축설계에 있어서도 과거의 종합 표준설계에 의하지 않고 각 학교마다 별도의 건축설계에 따라 지어지고 있다. 본 논문의 목적은 현재의 초등학교 교서의 차음환경을 조사하고 새로이 지어진 교사의 교실과 열린교실의 실내 음환경을 조사하여 현재 상황을 분석평가하고 이에 대한 대안을 제시하고자 하는 것이다. 이를 위하여 건축시공연대가 다른 초등학교 3개 학교를 선택하여 단위교실에서의 실내음향인자(RT60, C80, D50, RASTI)와 인접교실과의 차음성능(TL)을 측정하였다. 또한 해당교실의 학생과 교사에 대하여 설문조사를 실시하였다. 각 측정은 외부와 복도에 인접한 창문의 개폐여부와 실내의 위치별로 이루어 졌다. 실험결과, 열린교육에 따라 가변적 교실의 구성은 기존의 교실보다 차음성능이 평균$5\sim6dB$ 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 또한 신축교사의 RASTI값(0.73)이 10년 이상 된 학교(0.70)나 열린교실(0.64)보다 높은 것으로 나타났다. 음성명료도(D50) 역시 일반 신축교사가 열린교실 보다 높게 나타났다. 이것은 실의 기밀과 내부바닥의 마감자재로 비롯되었으며 최근의 열린교실은 음의 차음과 실내명료도에서 열악한 것으로 결론되었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.316-325
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• 2014

The basic unit of school is a classroom and the aural environment of the classrooms is essential factor for education purposes. Therefore, many efforts have been undertaken for enhancing the acoustical performance of the classrooms in many countries. As a result, acoustic criteria including reverberation time and background noise level have been established in US and UK for school classrooms depending on the usage and size of the rooms. However, in Korea, there has been little researches concerning the room acoustical investigations of the classrooms. The present study investigates the current situation of the aural environment of the 15 classrooms in Korea including elementary, middle and high schools. The acoustic criteria measured include RT, $D_{50}$, STI, SNR and background noise level. As the results, it was found that the background noise levels of the schools adjacent to roads exceed the US and UK standard of 35 dB(A). Also, most schools have so low SNR that they may be interfered by noise, which may affect speech transmission. It was also revealed that some schools have longer RT than the US standard of 0.6 s, but they all have high speech intelligibility.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.285-297
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• 2023

The present study aims to investigate the acoustic performance of the creative convergence classrooms in Korea used by elementary school students under the age of 9 introduced through the school space innovation project. In order to do this, acoustic performances of three creative convergence classrooms were measured. The measured acoustic parameters were background noise levels, Reverberation Time (RT), D₅₀, Speech Transmission Index (STI), and Inter-Aural Cross Correlation (IACC). Also, acoustic parameters including Transmission Loss (TL) and standardized level difference (D_nT) have been measured for the analysis of sound insulation performance of walls. In addition, the noise level was measured according to the opening conditions of doors and windows in the classroom. As a result, background noise level was measured at an average of 28.0 dB(A) to 32.8 dB(A) when the air conditioner was not operated, and the RT did not exceed 0.6 s. There were differences in IACC according to various desk layouts, and IACC values were high in the center line and the seats near the sound source. In particular, higher IACC was measured at the seats on the center line facing the source squarely. Regarding noise level in the classroom according to the opening conditions of doors and windows, the standards were exceeded when all windows, or windows and doors front onto the corridor were opened.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.113-123
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• 2023

This paper describes the acoustical conditions of elementary school and high school classrooms as well as university classrooms in Korea and suggests a need for Korean acoustic standards and guidelines for classroom design. Current standards and guidelines of classroom acoustics in several countries were briefly introduced to understand their acoustical performance criteria for background noise levels and reverberation times, and noise isolation design requirements in various types of classrooms. The results of several acoustic survey of domestic classrooms in elementary school, high school, and university were described and compared to provide information of the acoustic characteristics of Korean school classrooms. The survey includes occupied and unoccupied data on the acoustical conditions, noise levels, and noise isolation performance in the classrooms. Acoustical parameter values for achieving 'good' speech intelligibility in active university classrooms were also presented.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.92-101
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• 2016

There are many results in which acoustical conditions of a classroom play an important role for studying effects and academic achievement of students. However, there are very few guidelines or design proposals which could make appropriate acoustic environment when classrooms are built or renovated. The present study suggests various design proposals satisfying acoustic standards of classrooms based on theoretical calculation and acoustic field experiments. At first, minimum area of sound absorption was calculated which is required to satisfy the acoustic standard for domestic middle and high schools. Also, room acoustic measurements were carried out in order to investigate the acoustic performance of an existing classroom by changing interior finishing materials on ceiling and rear walls. As a result, it was revealed that reverberation time standard below 0.8 s can be acquired even if there is no sound absorption on ceiling which is a general practice executed in Korea. Specially, it was found that if partial area of ceiling would be treated as reflective with the ratio of sound absorption and reflection as 2:1, almost similar acoustic parameters of $C_{50}$, $D_{50}$, RASTI (Rapid Speech Transmission Index) and higher sound levels could be acquired in comparison with the case of entire sound absorption on ceiling.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.201-212
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• 2021

The present study was conducted as a pilot investigation to suggest the standards of acoustic performance for classrooms suitable for incomplete hearing people such as children under 9 years of age. Subjective evaluations such as questionnaire and speech intelligibility test were conducted to 264 students at two elementary schools in Cheong-ju in order to analyze the characteristics of the listening environment in the classrooms of the lower grades in elementary school. The survey was undertaken with a total of 264 students at two elementary schools in Cheong-ju, and investigated their satisfaction with the classroom listening environment. As a result, students responded that the most helpful information type for understanding class content is the voice of teacher. In addition, the volume of the current teacher's voice is normal, and the level of clarity is highly satisfactory. As for the acoustic performance of the classroom, the opinion that the noise was normal and the reverberation was very short was found to be dominant in overall satisfaction with the listening environment. Meanwhile, as a result of speech intelligibility test using the word list selected for the lower grade students of elementary school, it could be inferred that the longitudinal axis distance from the sound source in the case of 8-year-olds is a factor that affects speech recognition.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.487-490
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• 2002

학교 교육의 특성상 많은 부분이 교실에서의 음성정보 전달에 의해 이루어지고 있는 점을 감안하면 바람직한 청취환경의 개선이 검토되어야 한다. 또한 중${\cdot}$ 고등학교의 수학능력시험의 국어, 영어 듣기평가 및 다양한 어학 시험이 시청각 시설을 통해 이루어지고 있는 실정이므로 교실의 음환경은 매우 중요한 요소라하겠다. 본 논문에서는 음환경을 좌우하는 음원의 위치에 따라 명료 도가 어떻게 달라지는지를 실험을 통하여 검증하고, 명료도가 높고, 교실 전체에 균등한 분포를 보이는 음원의 위치를 찾아내고자 하였다. 교실 내의 음원의 위치로는 일반적으로 많이 쓰이고 있는 column(벽면 노출형)과 ceiling(천정 매입형) 위치와 임의의 음원 cluster(전면 중앙)를 선정하여 음장 파라메터를 측정한 결과 RASTI 는 세 타입 모두 $0.54\~0.55$로 값으로 근소한 차이를 보이고 있으며, 잔향시간은 ceiling>cluster>column의 순서로 나타났다. 일반적으로 잔향과 명료도와의 관계는 반비례하는 것으로 알려져 있으나, 실험 결과 잔향시간이 1.33초로 가장 긴 column 스피커의 경우 D50 값이 약 $47\%$로 가장 높은 값으로 나타났다. 이것은 column형 스피커의 경우 음원과 각 학생의 위치에 대한 평균 직접음선거리가 가장 짧기 때문인 것으로 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.279-282
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• 2001

해마다 실시되고 있는 대학수학능력시험의 듣기 평가시험에 있어서, 고사장 및 지점별 음향 성능에 기인한 레벨 편차와 명료도를 산출하여 학생 선발의 공공성과 객관성을 검토해 보고자 한다. 일반적으로 듣기 평가가 이루어지는 각 고사장은 듣기 평가 실시에 지장이 없는 고등학교 교실로 지정하고 있지만, 균등한 음 환경을 제공해야 하는 시험의 성격에 반해 학교 자체의 방송 시설을 그대로 사용하는 것은 평가의 형평성 및 객관성에 충실하지 못하게 되는 요인이 된다. 따라서, 각 고사장의 확성 시스템에 따른 음성 전달품질과 수험생간의 좌석별 음압 레벨 및 명료도를 평가하였고, 실험 결과 RASTI를 비롯한 음성 및 음절 명료도를 나타내는 파라메터에서 좌석별로 큰 편차가 있는 것으로 분석되었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.329-337
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• 2017

In USA and UK, the standards of both reverberation time and background noise level have been established for the appropriate aural environment in classrooms. In order to realize this, guidelines for architectural planning and interior finishing have been also suggested. However, in Korea, there has hardly been any guidelines for satisfying background noise criteria and investigation about sound insulation performance of current walls of classrooms. The present study investigates the structure of outer wall and walls between classrooms of two middle schools in order to analyze the sound insulation performance against both exterior and interior noises. Acoustic parameters including transmission loss, standardized sound level difference, and signal to noise ratio have been measured and analyzed for sound insulation performance of walls and flanking noises. As a result, concerning the walls in between classrooms, it was found that walls of dry construction have greater sound insulation performance rather than the walls of wet construction especially in mid and high frequency bands. Also, It was revealed that thermopane, insulated pair glass, of outer walls, has greater sound insulation performance than the double window consisted of two single pane glass. Regarding flanking noises, the standards were exceeded when all windows, or windows and doors front onto corridor were opened. It denotes that students could be disturbed with the sound transmission by the interior noises.