Vol-2,Issue-6,November - December 2017
Author: MA Germina Esquivel-Santos
Keywords: Academic Environment, Institutional Factor, Cleanliness, Safety.
Abstract: The academic environment is one of the numerous factors affecting academic performance and achievement. This paper assessed the academic environment of a university in terms of safety, cleanliness and comfortability. The descriptive method was used. This paper surveyed a total of 217 respondents, including 84 male and 217 female business administration students from Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology. This study examined how college students evaluated their learning environment in terms of safety, cleanliness, and comfortability. Safety of their learning environment topped on the students’ evaluation as compared to cleanliness and comfortability. They feel safe inside the school building and secured that their learning environment is free from harm that drugs may cause. Students’ participation was very important in maintaining their learning environment. Healthy and clean food was also prepared for them by their school. Strong evaluation result in the students’ learning environment was the positive and healthy interactions between instructors, staff, and student as it leads to the academic success of the students. However, some problems encountered are in terms of monitoring of guards to school vicinity is not regularly conducted, cleanliness of the comfort rooms was not observed, and fire exit was not easily accessible.
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