THE INFLUENCE OF SCHOOL BUILDING AGE UPON TEACHERS' ATTITUDES TOWARD THE SCHOOL BUILDING IN WHICH THEY TEACH.

摘要

This study was designed to investigate if teachers in new or modernized old elementary school buildings feel more positively about the building in which they teach than do teachers in non-modernized old school buildings. The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence, if any, of school building age upon teachers' attitudes towards the school building in which they teach.;The study demonstrated the teachers' attitudes toward the school building were influenced by the age and condition of the school buildings. The attitude scores of teachers in new school buildings and modernized old school buildings were significantly higher than those in non-modernized old school buildings.;The t-test for independent sample and ANOVA was used to define, describe and analyze the data.;To test the hypotheses, teachers in 30 elementary schools: 10 non-modernized old schools, 10 modernized old schools, and 10 modern new schools, were solicited to respond to Attitude Toward the School Building: Teachers' Inventory. The researcher collected pertinent information on the teacher participating in the study and information on the schools in which these teachers taught. This information along with the results obtained from the research instrument produced the necessary data to make the comparisons called for in this study. The researcher compared the data and findings on teachers in the 10 non-modernized old schools with the data and findings on teachers in the 10 modernized old schools and 10 modern new schools to determine if there was a measurable difference in the attitudes toward the school building of the three groups.