Students' Perception on Infrastructure Facilities of Community and Institutional School of Nepal

Abstract

This study was undertaken to examine the perceptions of on the condition of school's buildings, classrooms, toilets, and educational materials availability and condition. The school's facilities effect on the learning and achievement of students. The main objective of this study was to describe the students' perception on school's physical facilities of community and institutional schools of central development regions in Nepal. The data was collected from the respondents to know the measure of condition of school facilities and perception of students' psychological perspective. This study was conducted between January to July 2014, close ended questionnaire was designed to obtain descriptive results using cross tabulation and percentages to answer, and multi-stage sampling methods were applied. The sample size was taken proportionately from 3125 number of secondary and higher secondary school. The selected districts were Sindhupalchok, Kavre, Makwanpur, Kathmandu and Chitwan. From the universe, 32(1.02 percent) schools were taken by using proportionate stratified random sampling. A total of 128 students were selected from out of total 32 schools. The value of data Cronbach's Alpha is 0.84 within 17 variables.  Analysis of data was done by using the SPSS version 20. Chi-square test was applied to analyze the data.  There was significan association (p=.018) between the respondents about their perception of school design, and significant association between condition of classroom temperature and respondents about their perception at the p=.001 significant level, significant association between classroom area and respondents about their perception at the p=.000, and significant association between separate toilets for girls and boys and respondents about their perception at the =.114 has been found which means that the management , facilities and outcomes of  most of the private schools are better than government schools.