Linking student performance in Massachusetts elementary schools with the "greenness" of school surroundings using remote sensing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Wu, Chih Da ^a,b   McNeely, Eileen ^b   Cedeno Laurent J G ^b   Pan, Wen Chi ^c   Adamkiewicz, Gary ^b   Dominici, Francesca ^b   Lung, Shih Chun Candice ^d,e   Su, Huey Jen ^f   Spengler, John D ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ACHIEVEMENT TEST; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GREENNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PRIMARY SCHOOL; REMOTE SENSING; SCHOOL ATTENDANCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUDENT TEACHER RATIO; TREE; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; ACHIEVEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENT; SCHOOL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STUDENT;

ACHIEVEMENT; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SCHOOLS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENTS; TREES;

EID: 84907892310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108548     Document Type: Article

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