The purpose of this study is to grasp the effects of seating positions on children's preferences in the classrooms of row-and-column seating arrangements. The questionaire survey on seating preferences was carried out for the fourth and the sixth graders of open-plan elementary schools and traditional ones. The results are as follows: 1) The fourth graders prefer seats in the front and center of the room, and the sixth graders prefer seats in the rear and by windows. 2) Children prefer the classrooms directly adjacent to open space when comparing the seats of the nearest column of open space with the ones of the coresponding column of the traditional classroom. 3) Children do not prefer the seats of the rearest rows in 4×6 and 5X6 seating arrangement when comparing 4X6 with 3×8 and 5×6 with 4×8 respectively.
