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Casakin, Hernan; Kreitler, Shulamith – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
The study deals with the roles and interrelations of the meaning-based assessments of dwellings, pathways and metaphors in design performance. It is grounded in the Meaning Theory [Kreitler, S., and H. Kreitler. 1990. "The Cognitive Foundations of Personality Traits." New York: Plenum], which enables identifying the cognitive contents…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Design, Schematic Studies, Questionnaires
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Al-Matarneh, Rana; Fethi, Ihsan – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
The current concept of architectural design education in most schools of architecture in Jordan is a blend between manual and digital approaches. However, the disconnection between these two methods has resulted in the students' failure to transfer skills learnt through traditional methods to the digital method of CAAD. The objective of this study…
Descriptors: Building Design, Technology Integration, Architectural Education, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Asuquo, Effiong Edet; Ukpong, Okon U. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study was carried out to determine the perception of Business Education Lecturers in Colleges of Education on the influence of retail store location and design on the impulse buying behaviour of consumers in north-west Nigeria. A survey research design was used for the study. The study was carried out in the North-west zone of Nigeria. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Carr, Paul R.; Pluim, Gary; Thésée, Gina – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
The manner in which the built environment is constructed has a tremendous effect on the degree to which health, wealth and social outcomes are distributed within a society. This is particularly evident when a crisis of the natural environment affects the built environment, as was the case after the Haitian earthquake of 2010. Understanding the…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Democracy, Social Justice, Natural Disasters
Lawanto, Oenardi – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2011
The objective of this study was to describe the task interpretation of students engaged in a design activity and determine the extent to which students translate their understanding of their design task to their planning and cognitive strategies. Twenty-nine students at one Colorado high school participated in this study. Students worked…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Engineering, Instructional Design, Building Design
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Ornstein, Sheila Walbe; Moreira, Nanci Saraiva; Ono, Rosaria; Limongi Franca, Ana J. G.; Nogueira, Roselene A. M. F. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2009
Purpose: The 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 context of global efforts to develop and apply common indicators of school building quality, the authors describe research conducted within the newest generation of…
Descriptors: Building Design, Focus Groups, Questionnaires, Educational Change
Metropolitan Toronto School Board (Ontario). Study of Educational Facilities. – 1975
This study attempts to evaluate Toronto-area schools built using the Study of Educational Facilities (SEF) building system from the standpoint of the teachers and students who use the schools. While the SEF building system did not dictate an open-space plan, all local school boards in the Toronto area designed their SEF schools with varying…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Educational Facilities Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Flexible Facilities
Heubach, Janet G. – 1985
Eighth-grade students were studied to learn how their interpretations of school situations are influenced by behavior and visual space attributes and settings. A variety of studies support the importance of relationships between the person and the learning environment. In this study, it was hypothesized that students would evaluate as more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Standards, Building Design, Educational Environment
Martin, LaPrelle; And Others – 1976
This report describes a study conducted by the Boulder Valley (Colorado) Public Schools to determine the impact and value of the district's open-space elementary schools as compared to its traditional school buildings with self-contained classrooms. Specifically, the study sought to determine the effects of varying school designs on (1) the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Building Design, Classroom Environment, Educational Facilities
Ministry of Education, Bangkok (Thailand). – 1990
In 1987, a project was initiated in Thailand to develop a prototype to be used as a standard design for the construction of rural secondary schools in all areas of the country. The project had three objectives: (1) to derive architectural designs for classroom and auxiliary buildings that could be constructed within available budgets and would be…
Descriptors: Building Design, Construction Programs, Design Requirements, Educational Facilities Planning
Bartholomew, Robert P.; And Others – 1976
Reported are the findings of a research study to determine the effects of physical environment on the learning behavior of 13 institutionalized moderately and severely retarded individuals (14-18 years old). An introductory section covers the need for research in environmental control, the five study objectives, study procedures, data collection…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Architecture, Building Design, Classroom Environment
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Bartholomew, Robert P.; And Others – 1977
Provided is the revised and updated version of a report on the effects of physical environment on the learning behavior of 13 institutionalized moderately and severely retarded individuals (14 to 18 years old). An introductory section covers the need for research in enviornmental control, study objectives and procedures, methodology, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Architecture, Building Design, Classroom Environment
South Oklahoma City Junior Coll., OK. – 1979
Of the 14 institutional research projects undertaken at South Oklahoma City Junior College during fiscal year 1979, four are summarized in this compilation which also contains a bibliography on non-traditional education in the two-year college setting. The first report presents, in three tables, a count of classes by time of day for the 1977,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Building Design, Classroom Design, Classrooms
Wulfsberg, Rolf M.; Petersen, Richard J. – 1979
The physical facilities of 700 colleges and universities of the United States were studied by the National Center for Education Statistics in the fall of 1977. The primary study objectives were to: (1) develop a reliable estimate of what American colleges and universities must spend to make their programs accessible to the mobility impaired, as…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), Building Design, Building Plans