Architecture Students' Perception of their Learning Environment and their Academic Performances
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Scholars have agreed that the way students perceive their learning environment
influences their academic performances. Empirical studies that focus on architecture
students are however very scarce. This is the gap that an attempt has been made to fill
in this study. A questionnaire survey of 273 students in a school of architecture in
Nigeria provided data for this pilot study. The perceptions of the students were best
defined by the involvement of the students in their studies, their perceived support and
conduciveness of the learning environment. The students' perceptions of their learning
environment varied with their years of study, ages, and gender. Their perceptions of
inflexibility of schedule, positive assessment, and fairness influenced the overall
grades of the students. The results suggest the aspects of learning environment that
can be manipulated by architectural educators to improve performances of their
students. The study of the learning environment of architecture students still appears to
be relatively unexplored. The value of this study therefore lies in its exploration of the
perceptions of the learning environment from the point of view of students.
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NA Architecture