Survey of Teachers¡¯ Perception of Future School Learning Space

The cultivation of students¡¯ core competencies is a worldwide issue. Transforming the learning environment to promote innovative pedagogy has become a trend. As a critical role in students¡¯ cultivation, teachers¡¯ perception of learning space has the direct effect on learning outcomes. This study aims to investigate the teachers¡¯ perception of the new learning space. A teacher¡¯s perception of future school learning space scale is developed to collect the data, which includes 8 subscales and 35 items, 355 teachers participated in the study. Result of Descriptive statistics and Independent-samples t-tests indicated that: (a) Future School Learning Space Scale is reliable and effective; (b) teachers¡¯ perception of Comfortability of learning space, Constructive Learning, Differentiation Learning are relative higher, Cloud Technology and Connectivity are both lower; (c) Teachers in different group, such as gender, teaching experience and type of school have significant difference in their perception of future learning space. Implications for Chinese future learning space design and construction have discussed.