HEALTH, ENERGY AND PRODUCTIVITY IN SCHOOLS: MEASURES OF OCCUPANT PERFORMANCE

摘要

In this age of accountability, school districts fail to consider how the poor conditions of their facilities affect teacher and student performance. The Health, Energy, and Productivity in Schools (HEPS) study introduces a questionnaire that extends medical and building sciences research. The teacher questionnaire includes classroom environment acceptability ratings, teacher and student health conditions, and changes in student performance. Relationships between thermal, acoustic, lighting, and indoor air quality exposures to the performance of teachers and students in elementary schools are linked for the first time quantitatively through this questionnaire. Teachers' questionnaire responses, exposure data, student quarterly grade reports and student standardized test scores are used to quantify the changes in indoor environmental quality and student performance between pre and post intervention conditions of each school and classroom. The questionnaire is being validated for use in future studies of schools, as well as to study performance and productivity in other settings.