Abstract:
The problem understudy was to investigate “the impact of environmental quality
of school buildings on student’s academic achievements”, with the objectives to bring
forth environmental quality of school buildings, and, to determine and evaluate its
importance. All government higher secondary schools (male and female) and all
government degree colleges (male and female) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa constitute the
population of this research, whereas to conduct this empirical study, students of two
government higher secondary schools and two government degree colleges from four
districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were selected as sample. The study was delimited to the
subject of English. Hundred students of intermediate part-I from each selected institute
were taken as sample. The duration of the experiment was three weeks. Academic
qualifications and training backgrounds of subject specialists and lecturers of respective
institutes were considered to be equal. To set a baseline about the academic level of
students in this post-test only design, their marks in the subject of English at Secondary
level was considered. Prior to the commencement of the study, detailed information on
the five selected variables was obtained by carefully filling the questionnaire designed for
this purpose in a walk through survey of post occupancy evaluation of selected buildings.
After three weeks, the academic achievement of students was evaluated through post test.
Data obtained through aforementioned tools was analyzed; the Mean, Variance,
Standard Deviation, Standard Error Mean, Correlation and T-test was computed from the
collected data and was interpreted. All the information collected was analyzed and
presented through tables and graphs.
Findings of the study revealed a considerable impact of the environmental quality
on student’s academic achievement. Results obtained from the analysis of the data
gathered in the walk-through survey, while revealing interesting facts about institutional
buildings, also endorsed the findings.
