The relationship between student's perceptions of their school environment and academic achievement.

ABSTRACT: Research within an educational context has demonstrated the importance of variables such as socioeconomic status, gender and school attendance as predictors of academic achievement, however research investigating the role of the physical learning environment on academic achievement is more limited and what research has been conducted often focuses on objective characteristics such as temperature, air quality and noise. In contrast this study measures students' subjective perceptions of their physical school environment and explores how these perceptions along with socioeconomic status, gender and school attendance relate to academic achievement. In addition, we also examined a range of other important variables that could be potential mediating factors between environmental perceptions and

SUBMITTER: Edgerton E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9929545 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature