A framework of school classroom facilities for improving students’ attendance and academic achievement

Abstract

Facility management has become a major issue in any organisation as it affects the organisation’s performance. The aim of this study is to develop a framework of school classroom facilities and how it influence students’ attendance and academic achievement. The research objectives are to identify the key performance indicators for school classroom facilities, to determine the relationships between school classroom facilities performance and students’ attendance and academic achievement, to determine the components of indicators for school classroom facilities and to develop a framework of school classroom facility for improving students’ attendance and academic achievement. A mixed method approach was adopted in the research. A questionnaire survey was distributed to 200 students in secondary school around Johor which is to achieve the first objective of the research. Using the results from first survey, a second questionnaire survey was conducted to achieve the second objective of the research. The questionnaire survey was distributed to 405 students in secondary schools around Johor. Interviews were conducted to 22 respondents consisting of school teachers, officers in the Education Department and staff and engineers in the Public Works Department to determine the third objective of the research. The contents of the interviews were analysed using content analysis through Nvivo software. The results from the analysis contributed to the development of a framework of school classroom facilities for improving students’ attendance and academic achievement. The proposed framework consists of three levels of performance indicators, including key performance indicators, their indicators and their components. The key performance indicators that have the most influence of the students’ attendance and academic achievement are ventilation, temperature and classroom design.