How related are technical and subjective measures of building conditions?

Facilities ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 295-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnt O. Hopland
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Physical Work ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
School Building ◽  
Subjective Measures ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Building Conditions ◽  
School Building Conditions

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the link between technical school building conditions and student satisfaction with the school buildings. Learning more about the relationship between the measures will be useful for researchers who are studying the effect from physical work conditions on student achievement. Design/methodology/approach – The paper aims to study the correlation between technical condition and user satisfaction with school buildings using two different data sources. The first source is administrative data, where the local governments have reported the condition of their school buildings to a national investigation of school building conditions. The second source is survey data where students in Norwegian primary schools report their satisfaction with their learning environment, including the school buildings. Combining the two data sources provides a unique data set for a large number of Norwegian primary schools. Findings – The measures of technical and subjective condition are significantly correlated, but the correlation is far from 100 percent. Hence, it will be of great interest for researchers to look more into potential effects from subjective measures of building condition. Originality/value – The paper provides an investigation of the link between two different measures of building conditions that can both be relevant to use in studies of how school buildings affect student performance.

scholarly journals The relationship between school building and school life satisfactionOkul binaları ve okul yaşam doyumu arasındaki ilişki

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 2113
Author(s):  
Semiha Şahin
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
School Building ◽  
Building Conditions ◽  
Meaningful Relationship ◽  
School Building Conditions ◽  
Multifactor Regression ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this research is to examine whether low and high student success and green-mixed-old types of buildings have a meaningful relationship with perceptions of teachers on quality of school buildings, and the relationship between school building conditions and life satisfaction of teachers, and the degree of effects of buildings to this satisfaction. Quantitative methods were used in the research. 170 participants of research were elementary and middle school teachers from Madison/Wisconsin, US. Stratified random sampling was used in the research. In data collection, ‘Quality School Building Scale’ and ‘Teachers Life Satisfaction Scale’ were used. Data was analyzed with Mann Whitney U test, F & r statistics, and multifactor regression analysis. According to results, school building conditions and life satisfaction of teachers has a positive relation. A significant correlation was found between perception of teachers of school buildings, and low or high academic success of students in the dimension of ‘equipment and building of school’ and ‘physical condition and equipment’ - in favor of green schools.  Life satisfaction has an intermediate level meaningful relationship with school campus and lightnings, and with a close resulted, there is a low level meaningful relationship with visibility range and acoustics. School building sizes explains 20% of unidimensional life satisfaction. Thus, bettering the conditions of building should be an important task for authorities and employees of schools.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetBu araştırmada öğretmenlerin okul bina kalitesine algıları arasında öğrenci başarısı ve okul bina tipine göre anlamlı bir farkın olup olmadığı; okul bina koşullarıyla öğretmenlerin okul yaşam doyumları arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Araştırmanın katılımcıları ABD, Wisconsin/Madison’da ilk ve orta dereceli okullarda görev yapan öğretmenlerdir. Araştırmada tabakalı seçkisiz örnekleme yöntemi kullanılmış, 170 öğretmen örneklemde yer almıştır. Veri toplama aracı olarak “kaliteli okul binası ölçeği” ve Yaşam Doyumu Öğretmen Ölçeği adlı ölçekler kullanılmıştır.   Veriler Mann Whitney U, F ve r istatistiği ile çok faktörlü regresyon analizi yapılmıştır. Araştırmanın sonuçlarına göre öretmenlerin okul bina koşulları ve yaşam doyumuna algıları olumludur. Akadamik başarıya göre öğretmen algıları toplam ölçek ve fiziksel koşullar boyutunda farklılaşırken, okul tipine göre yeşil okullar lehine tüm tüm boyutlarada farklılaşmaktadır. okulların lehinedir. Okul binaları ve öğretmenlerin okul yaşam doyumları arasında pozitif yönlü bir ilişki vardır. Okul yaşam doyumu ile fiziksel koşullar ve ışıklandırma boyutları arasında orta, akustik ve görüş mesafdesi boyutları arasında ise az bir farkla düşük düzeyde püzitif bir ilişki vardır. Okul bina ve donanımı okul yaşam doyumunu %20 düzeyinde açıklamaktadır. Bu durumda okul binalarının durumun iyileşmesi yetkililerin ve okul çalışanlarının önemeli bir konusu olmalıdır.

scholarly journals Sustainable Development of School Buildings Management in the Exploratory Schools in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Rawia Khalil Hasan Al Shboul
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
School Principals ◽  
T Test ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
School Building ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Administrative Practices ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Type Of School

The management and sustainability of school buildings is one of the primary challenges facing school administrations in the twenty-first century, especially after the increasing demand for education and seeking to increase the absorptive capacity of the increasing numbers of students, in addition to increasing the number of days of the school year and the fact that students are staying for a period of more than six hours a day in the school. This requires studying the reality of sustainable development to manage school buildings and its ability to meet the future needs of the teaching and learning processes. From here, the objective of the study was to reveal the administrative practices necessary to achieve sustainable development of school buildings in the exploratory schools (technology schools in Jordan) by answering the following questions:1) What administrative needs are required to achieve sustainable development practices in the management of exploratory schools in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from the point of view of school principals, their assistants and Main Teachers in these schools?2) Do the sustainable development practices in the management of exploratory school buildings in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan differ at the level (α = 0.05) according to gender, type of school, job?To achieve the objective of the study and answer its questions, a questionnaire was prepared consisting of (47) items, each reflecting the school management practices necessary to achieve the sustainable development of the school building. The coefficient of reliability and validity of the instrument was verified with alpha-Cronbach (0.96) for the instrument as a whole. The study sample included (623) individuals. For data analysis, the arithmetical means, standard deviations, T test, and mono-variance analysis were used.The results of the study showed that the management of the exploratory schools needs administrative practices to achieve the sustainable development of the school building to a high degree in the field of school and service facilities. The responses of the sample members of the study recorded the highest mean of 4.13, while the lowest need was recorded for the field of management of the site of the school building with a mean of 3.67. The results of the T-test analysis showed that there were statistically significant differences (α = 0.05) between the responses of the sample of the study in the management of the site of the school building in favor of the Main Teacher with a mean of 3.81 compared with the responses of school principals and their assistants. The results of the study also showed that there were statistically significant differences between the responses of the sample of the study in the field of school building site due to the type of school in favor of basic education schools (first and second cycle ) compared to primary schools (1-10). As for the gender variable, the results of the T-test analysis showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the arithmetical means of the responses of the sample of the study in all fields of study.

A graph-based approach for representing, integrating and analysing neuroscience data: the case of the murine basal ganglia

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maren Parnas Gulnes ◽  
Ahmet Soylu ◽  
Dumitru Roman
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Basal Ganglia ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Graph Model ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Neuroanatomical Data

PurposeNeuroscience data are spread across a variety of sources, typically provisioned through ad-hoc and non-standard approaches and formats and often have no connection to the related data sources. These make it difficult for researchers to understand, integrate and reuse brain-related data. The aim of this study is to show that a graph-based approach offers an effective mean for representing, analysing and accessing brain-related data, which is highly interconnected, evolving over time and often needed in combination.Design/methodology/approachThe authors present an approach for organising brain-related data in a graph model. The approach is exemplified in the case of a unique data set of quantitative neuroanatomical data about the murine basal ganglia––a group of nuclei in the brain essential for processing information related to movement. Specifically, the murine basal ganglia data set is modelled as a graph, integrated with relevant data from third-party repositories, published through a Web-based user interface and API, analysed from exploratory and confirmatory perspectives using popular graph algorithms to extract new insights.FindingsThe evaluation of the graph model and the results of the graph data analysis and usability study of the user interface suggest that graph-based data management in the neuroscience domain is a promising approach, since it enables integration of various disparate data sources and improves understanding and usability of data.Originality/valueThe study provides a practical and generic approach for representing, integrating, analysing and provisioning brain-related data and a set of software tools to support the proposed approach.

Effects of primary school’s physical environment on children’s spatial perception and behavior

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet Türel ◽  
Elmira Ayşe Gür
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Spatial Perception ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Projective Metric ◽  
And Behavior

Purpose The relationship between the child and his/her physical environment is an area of interaction that includes social, psychological and cultural factors along with the spatial experience, perception and behavior of the child. This study is based on the effects of spatial perception and behavior of the child within the physical environment of primary schools. In this direction, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how spatial and physical characteristics of primary school typologies affect the spatial perception and behavior of the child. Also, the parameters affecting spatial perception and behavior are examined. Design/methodology/approach The question to be investigated is how the spatial and physical characteristics of the school’s physical environment affect the child’s spatial perception and behavior in primary schools with different typologies. Within this scope, Istanbul’s Kagithane region is selected as a case study. Schools are chosen for their similar spatial and dimensional features and similar socio-economic environment. The methodology of the study consists of a literature review, an observational study carried out to discover the interaction between the child and his/her school building and the analysis of the student’s cognitive maps. These maps were evaluated according to topological, projective, metric and imaginative parameters. Findings The results show spatial organization and physical characteristics of primary school buildings with a structure that allows for change and transformation, and contributes to the physical and cognitive development of children. Originality/value This study will provide an opportunity to develop the design of future primary school buildings that can support the spatial perception and spatial experiences of the children.

A composite tourism index for the competitiveness of marginal areas: a pilot application in a Southern Italy province

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentino Moretto ◽  
Gianluca Elia ◽  
Gianpaolo Ghiani
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Marginal Areas ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Traditional Approaches

Purpose Differently from traditional approaches that rely on the analysis of single dimensions of the tourism phenomenon, this study aims to experiment a systemic approach based on structured and unstructured data sources to elaborate a composite index to measure the tourist competitiveness of marginal areas, with the final aim to design and plan proper socio-economic development strategies. Design/methodology/approach The methodology adopted to carry out the study follows a four-step process and relies on indicators that are both relevant and accessible. The first step concerns the analysis of the literature about the existing approaches to calculate a tourism index. The second step concerns the definition of the indicators and the collection of data by using both structured and unstructured sources. The third step focuses on the population of the data set. Finally, the fourth step aims at calculating the tourism index through a composite-based methodology and using it for a pilot application in a Southern Italy province. Findings The study calculates a synthetic tourism index for each of the 97 municipalities of the Province of Lecce (a city located in the southeast of Italy). The proposed index combines administrative, institutional and open data sources to derive a single indicator for each municipality, thus supporting decision-makers in understanding the complex reality and competitiveness level of territories in the tourism industry. Originality/value The main elements of originality of the study are the breadth and typology of data sources considered to calculate the composite indicator of tourism competitiveness (both structured and unstructured); and the use of weighting and aggregation procedures in the methodological issues.

scholarly journals Design tactics for enhancing the adaptability of primary and middle schools to the new needs of postpandemic reuse

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Orkan Zeynel Güzelci ◽  
Asena Kumsal Şen Bayram ◽  
Sema Alaçam ◽  
Handan Güzelci ◽  
Elif Işık Akkuyu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
School Building ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Exterior Space ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Open Plan ◽  
Present Design ◽  
Algorithmic Model ◽  
Sample Set

PurposeThe aim of this study is to present design tactics (DTs) for supporting the adaptability of existing primary and middle school buildings into the emerging needs of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The study introduces a novel algorithmic model for postoccupancy evaluation of the existing school buildings and provides solutions to enhance the adaptability of these buildings.Design/methodology/approachThis study employs the DTs defined by the authors, integration of DTs to the algorithmic model and tests the usability of the proposed model in the selected sample set. The sample set consists of four primary and middle school buildings with different architectural qualities. The degrees of flexibility of the existing sample set are evaluated depending on the outcomes of the implementation.FindingsThe degrees of flexibility are achieved as a result of execution of the algorithmic model for each selected school building. Initial results of the case studies show that the flexibility of a school building is highly related to affordances and design decisions of the plan layout which were considered in the initial phases of the design process. Architectural qualities such as open plan and having sufficient voids in the interior and exterior space become prominent factors for ensuring flexibility.Originality/valueDeveloping a systematic approach to the adaptation problem of primary and middle school buildings to postpandemic reuse is a novel research topic. Apart from this contextual originality, the proposed taxonomy for postpandemic reuse in terms of three levels of adaptation is a new conceptual framework. Moreover, the proposed algorithmic model itself can be considered as an original contribution, as well as a merge of qualitative values such as adaptation and flexibility with an algorithmic model.

scholarly journals School leaders' and teachers' leadership perceptions: differences and similarities

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 645-660
Author(s):  
Ellen Daniëls ◽  
Annie Hondeghem ◽  
Jan Heystek
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Teacher Perceptions ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Teacher Collaboration ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Leadership Behaviour ◽  
Teachers Perspectives

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to offer insight into school leaders' and teachers' perspectives on leadership behaviour and its impact on their mutual relationships. Research papers that include perspectives from both school leaders and teachers are relatively scarce in the field of education. However, it is important to take account of both perspectives because if they align, school leaders can be expected to be more successful. Moreover, positive teacher perceptions about school leaders result in lower levels of teacher burnout and enhanced teacher collaboration.Design/methodology/approachThe current study employed qualitative data drawn from 24 primary schools in Belgium. The data set was assembled from 24 interviews with school leaders and 22 focus groups with teachers. The research analyses the interviews and focus groups from an inductive approach in order to let theory emerge, to refine existing theories in the field of education and to get an in-depth understanding of agreements and disagreements in the perspectives of school leaders and teachers.FindingsThe results show that school leaders and teachers perceive school leadership principally as relation- and task-oriented. However, there are differences in the perceptions about the subcategories of relation-oriented behaviour between school leaders and teachers. School leaders refer to consulting with members when making decisions and providing feedback. On the other hand, teachers indicate the importance of support and encouragement and recognition. The perceptions of the relationships between school leaders and teachers seem to match, with both valuing trust, openness and contribution.Originality/valueThis study addresses the relative scarcity of research relating to school leaders’ and teachers’ perspectives regarding school leadership. The study clarifies concepts in order to facilitate further research on school leaders' effectiveness.

scholarly journals The Impact of School Building Conditions on Student Absenteeism in Upstate New York

2010 ◽  
Vol 100 (9) ◽  
pp. 1679-1686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elinor Simons ◽  
Syni-An Hwang ◽  
Edward F. Fitzgerald ◽  
Christine Kielb ◽  
Shao Lin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
School Building ◽  
Building Conditions ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Student Absenteeism ◽  
School Building Conditions ◽  
The Impact
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