Thepartlyspecularreflectionandpartlydiffusionreflectionmodelisaconvenientwaytoexpressthephenomenaofsurfacesoundenergyscatteringinroomacoustics.Soundenergydiffusioncoefficientbecomesakeyfactortostudysurfacescattering.Buttherehavebeenveryfewmethodsfordeterminingtheaveragesoundenergydiffusioncoefficient.Vorliinderproposedsuchaneasyonebasedonthecorrelationprinciple.However,hismethodignoredthecorrelationfromdirectsound,inwhichdefectispresent.Anewapproximatemethodforcalculatingsoundenergydiffusioncoefficient,includingdirectsoundandfirststrongreflectionsispresented.Therefore,Vorlaender''''''''sdefectisovercome.Inaddition,withtheaidofdigitalmeasuringtechnology,arelevantmeasuringsystemwasdeveloped.TheexperimentresultshowsthatthemethodisimprovedthanVorlaender's.