Evaluating quality and user involvement

Articles in CELE Exchange/PEB Exchange:

• The future of the physical learning environment: school facilities that support the user, December 2011.
• Well-being at school: does infrastructure matter?, December 2011.
• User participation: a new approach to school design in Korea, March 2011.
• Transforming pedagogical ethos into an effective learning environment, March 2011.
• Making visionary design work at policy level and in practice, March 2011.
• The Kunskapsskolan (“the knowledge school”): a personalised approach to education, March 2011.
• How intuitive design in schools can be achieved be engaging with the consumer, November 2010
• Can the physical environment have an impact on the learning environment? November 2010
• The impact of school design on academic achievement in the Palestinian territories, March 2010
• Monitoring the quality of school buildings in Belgium’s Flemish Community, October 2009
• Evaluating Quality in Educational Spaces: OECD/CELE Pilot Project, October 2009
• San Diego’s Capital Planning Process, February 2009
• South Africa’s School Infrastructure Performance Indicator System, no. 60, June 2007
• Best Practice in Action: Six Essential Elements that Define Educational Facility Design, no. 59, February 2007
• Quality in Educational Facilities, no. 57, February 2006.
• Progress on Evaluating School Buildings in Scotland, no. 57, February 2006.
• Post Occupancy Evaluation in Scotland, no. 53, October 2004.
• Evaluating Montbrillant Lower Secondary School in Switzerland, no. 52, June 2004.
• An Innovative School Revisited: Leith Academy and the Projects That Followed, no. 51, February 2004.
• Evaluating School Facilities in Portugal, no. 49, June 2003.
• Review of Building Quality Using Post Occupancy Evaluation, no. 48, February 2003.
• The Relationship Between Capital Investment and Pupil Performance: An Analysis by the United Kingdom, no. 44, October 2001.
• Improving the Performance of the Higher Education Estate: UK Research, no. 39, February 2000.
• Editorial: Evaluating Educational Facilities, no. 38, October 1999.
  

See also www.oecd.org/edu/facilities/evaluatingquality

Book reviews:

OECD/PEB (2000), The Appraisal of Investments in Educational Facilities, Paris.

Online database:

OECD Education Database: internationally comparable data on key aspects of education systems.