Table of contents - Special Issue: Building high quality schools for learners and communities
Guest Editors: Dr Cynthia L. Uline
Do portable classrooms impact teaching and learning?
Tak Cheung ChanThe purpose of this paper is to examine the possible impact portable classrooms have on the teaching and learning process by exploring current related literature.
Spending on school infrastructure: does money matter?
Faith E. CramptonThe purpose of this study is to further develop an emerging thread of quantitative research that grounds investment in school infrastructure in a unified theoretical framework of…
Teacher attitudes about classroom conditions
Glen I. Earthman, Linda K. LemastersThis research was designed to investigate the possible relationship between the attitudes, teachers have about the condition of their classrooms when the classrooms were…
Building schools, rethinking quality? Early lessons from Los Angeles
Bruce Fuller, Luke Dauter, Adrienne Hosek, Greta Kirschenbaum, Deborah McKoy, Jessica Rigby, Jeffrey M. VincentNewly designed schools for centuries have projected fresh ideals regarding how children should learn and how human settlements should be organized. But under what conditions can…
Improving the quality of school facilities through building performance assessment: Educational reform and school building quality in São Paulo, Brazil
Sheila Walbe Ornstein, Nanci Saraiva Moreira, Rosaria Ono, Ana J.G. Limongi França, Roselene A.M.F. NogueiraThe paper describes the purpose of and strategies for conducting post‐occupancy evaluations (POEs) as a method for assessing school building performance. Set within the larger…
Measuring school facility conditions: an illustration of the importance of purpose
Lance W. RobertsThe purpose of this paper is to argue that taking the educational purposes of schools into account is central to understanding the place and importance of facilities to learning…
Effects of school design on student outcomes
C. Kenneth TannerThe purpose of this study is to compare student achievement with three school design classifications: movement and circulation, day lighting, and views.
The walls still speak: the stories occupants tell
Cynthia L. Uline, Megan Tschannen‐Moran, Thomas DeVere WolseyAccompanying the recent concern for the quality of our nation's educational infrastructure, a growing body of research connects the quality of school facilities to both student…
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hybridEditors:
- Professor Chen Schechter
- Professor Jayson W. Richardson