CHAPTER 1

Introduction

The quality of education depends on school facilities and instructional

material. It is the process of students learning. The quality of a school’s

environment and its facilities has a strong influence on students’ learning. Besides

regular use in organizing and managing a school’s activities, records of a school’s

physical facilities and material resources such as furniture and equipment can

provide data to derive many indicators for assessing the quality of education in a

school. School facilities can actually have a substantive impact on learning

process. School facilities can be defined as those things that enable the teacher

to do his/her work very well and helping the learners to learn effectively. School

facilities are all things that are needed for effective teaching-learning process to

take place. They are designed buildings that provided the appropriate

infrastructure for new learning approaches, mode of instruction, as well as tools

for technology that improved teaching and learning (Bartebly, 2014)

A growing body of research has found that school facilities can have a

profound impact on both teacher and student outcomes. With respect to teachers,

school facilities affect teacher recruitment, retention, commitment, and effort. With

respect to students, school facilities affect health, behavior, engagement, learning,

and growth in achievement. Thus, researchers generally conclude that without

adequate facilities and resources, it is extremely difficult to serve large numbers of

children with complex needs.

 Thus, facility quality is an important predictor of teacher retention and

student learning. The physical and emotional health of students and teachers

depend on the quality of the physical location, which makes establishing safe,

healthy buildings essential. (PennState, 2020)

An effective school facility is responsive to the changing programs of

educational delivery, and at a minimum should provide a physical environment that

is comfortable, safe, secure, accessible, well illuminated, well ventilated, and

aesthetically pleasing. The school facility consists of not only the physical structure

and the variety of building systems, such as mechanical, plumbing, electrical and

power, telecommunications, security, and fire suppression systems. The facility

also includes furnishings, materials and supplies, equipment and information

technology, as well as various aspects of the building grounds, namely, athletic

fields, playgrounds, areas for outdoor learning, and vehicular access and parking.

(Lackney, 2019)

This is consistent with DepEd Order No. 64, s. 2017 Establishing the

minimum Performance Standards and Specification for DepEd school buildings, to

guide the Department and other stakeholders in the preparation of plans like

architectural, structural, electrical, fire protection and sanitary to ensure the comfort

and safety of the occupants of the school buildings. (Llego, 2017)

Maximo L. Gatlabayan Memorial National High School has 5 class room

and 3 laboratories for Senior high school, those are HE laboratories, ICT

laboratories and Science laboratories. Each laboratories has an equipment like

computers in I.C.T. laboratories, Baking and cooking utensils in H.E laboratories

and experiment materials in Science laboratories. We motivate to conduct this

research to measure the level of efficiency and productivity of the students thru the

help of facilities and equipment of school.