Open versus traditional classrooms

In a more exhaustive revieh,,, Homitz (1979) located nearly 200 such studies. Hor\/itz defined open classroom teaching as "a style of teaching involving, flexibility of space, student choice of activity, richness of learning materials, integration of curriculum materials and more individual or small-group rather than large-group instruction" (pp. 72-73). Horwitz used a 'vote counting' method to integrate findings across research studies. But, as Glass (1977) has pointed out, "to know that televised instruction beats traditional classroom instruction in 25 out of 30 studies if, in fact, it does is not to know whether TV wins by a nose or in a walkaway" (pp. 359).