Facility Quality Relation to Learning Efficacy in Mafraq Governorate
Education facility is the setting where interaction between students and teachers takes place. Facility quality affects learning efficacy. The study was conducted using interviews and surveys to elecit data from 229 administers located at three directorates of Mafraq Governerate. Subjects were selected using stratified random sampling. Results indicated that learning efficacy was associated with the following entities of facility quality: natural ventilation, classroom arrangement flexibility, attention to furniture and equipment. Further, the following entities of facility quality were positively correlated with directorates of Mafraq Governerate: additional lighting sources, natural ventilation, presence of rest rooms, and school size; and were negatively correlated with indoor sports facility. Finally, the following entities of facility quality were positively correlated to village distance from Mafraq City: natural ventilation, existence of outdoor sports facility, food facility, rest rooms, and number of students in classroom. Administrators should keep in mind that although the education environment is complicated, the different aspects of services are inter-related, and they need to take a holistic view about the facility. Policy makers should realize the importance of facility’s physical capacity in influencing students achievemnets.
