Table 1. Identified items in categories of section B questions (conventional classroom)
No. Categories
1. Classroom Brightness
2. Seating Arrangement
3. Interior Variety
4. Furniture Setting
5. Students’ Participation in Classroom
6. View to Outdoors
7. Overall Preference
Items Identification
Amount of light in the classroom (daylight and artificial) Variety of seating arrangement and additional spaces (interactive or non-interactive that promote or discourage communication between students)
Variation of textures and materials used for walls and ceiling, the amount of user adornments such as paintings, pictures, maps)
Variation of furniture setting such as own lockers, book racks, and etc.)
Students’ participation in classroom in term of seating arrangement or decorating class
Any outdoor view
Overall rating of all factors that student consider important to the classroom physical environment
Phase two questionnaires were asked about their preferred choice of classroom physical environment based on the visual new layout and designed. The researcher re-designed the classroom setting based on the classroom users’ perception on their conventional classroom and what they wanted to be improved. The new classroom design was used the standardized real classroom size but with a different layout setting. However, the visual question including three conventional layouts and additional three new layouts. Below are the layouts as in the visual questionnaire. Figure 1 is the conventional layouts whilst figure 2 is the new layout design.
(a) (b) (c) Fig. 1. (a) layout A- rows and columns; (b) layout B-modular or groups; (c) layout C-U-shape arrangement