REVIEW OF THE IMPACT OF GENERAL LECTURE ROOM PHYSICAL ELEMENTS ON LEARNING ACTIVITIES IN THE ITB GANESHA CAMPUS

• Main Author: RATNA ANINDITA (NIM: 27115056), LINTANG
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/28616
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) is known to be one of the best and oldest universities in Indonesia. As a well-experienced but developing university, it can be imagined there are a diverse array of classroom designs, from historical to modern. While the ITB Ganesha campus continues to grow, the student population increases year by year, allowing the university to add and expand educational facilities, including classrooms. However, current students of the university have a tendency to feel bored or sleepy/lack of concentration during lectures, which may be a result of how the classroom is designed. The purpose of this thesis is to help achieve an effective environment for ITB students to learn by understanding and determining an optimal classroom design. <br /> <br /> This thesis presents a quantitative and qualitative analysis on interior design aspects from five characteristically different classrooms used for lectures in general and how they affect students’ learning, not limited by any particular class subject or field of study. Analyzed interior aspects include classroom shape, layout, lighting, acoustics, air circulation, color and furniture. Respondents were 319 undergraduate students, with a minimum amount of 50 samples for each classroom, who were asked to fill in and answer a questionnaire about the current condition of each interior aspect in the classroom after attending a lecture in the observed classroom. The questionnaire contains likert-scale and open-ended questions. <br /> <br /> The outcomes are an accumulative score based on statistics for every interior aspect to determine which and how aspects are ideal to support learning activities. A description of classroom design problems pointed out by students is also presented, adding to a conclusion of results which may be used for consideration on designing optimal classroom for ITB students in the future.