@article{2015,title={Student-Centered Design In Educational Buildings},abstractNode={School is one of the most important space and factors after the home in development of children. Educational buildings have an important role in a child’s life, because child spends his/her most time in school with his friends and teachers, even much more then in home with his family. In addition, the educational activities carried out in the education buildings are very effective on children development who are future of society. Education is multi-dimensional phenomenon so that it progresses under the effect of so many factors. Physical conditions of education buildings are one of the most important factors which are effective on the education. On the other hand, learning is a complex activity that is related with students' motivation and physical condition. As well as the education resources, teacher’s skills and training curriculum, physical conditions of education buildings and their design are quite effective components on student’s learning performance. However, in our country like all over the world, students have no voice in the designing of this type of buildings which is quite effective on students’ performance. When looking at the public schools which are a large part of the existing schools in our country, it is seen that they have standard type projects which don’t consider local culture and context. Though, the students’ opinion should be considered and applied during designing period of the buildings where students spend their most of time. Hence, student’s self-confidence, responsibility about their school and feelings of belonging will increase. In the study, these findings are determined; physical space quality of school buildings have positive or negative effects on student’s academic achievement and learning performance. Students, whose schools have poor and inadequate physical conditions, generally talk about negative features on the subject of feature/features that distinguish their school than others, as for students, whose schools have healthy physical conditions, prioritize their schools positive properties. In the healthy condition schools, students’ expectation about renovation of their school is raised higher than students’ expectation in the poor and inadequate physical condition schools. There is a significant relation between school building age and students’ satisfaction level of school physical features, spatial quality (physical environment factors) and safety, effect of school on student, student achievement and school attendance. Students’ satisfaction about aesthetical features like welcoming of school building exterior, environmental compliance of school building, color of building facade and visualization of the inner and outer part effect student achievement in a positive way. Higher quality level of school location, student size, classroom dimensions, spatial organization and spatial density, equipment, acoustic, ventilation, temperature-heat, light, color, hygiene, safety, symbolic-aesthetic values and providing user participation in the school design have positive effects on student achievement, motivation, social relation, healthy, responsibility feeling of students to their parents and society and behaviors. If learning environments are accommodated by taking into account students’ physiological, psychological-social specialty and wishes, student academic achievement will be effected positively. In this context, the purpose of this study is to learn children’s thoughts about the current physical condition of their school and determine changes that students want to happen about their school. To obtain data for the study observation, determination and survey techniques were used. At the end of the study, in the light of the acquired knowledge from literature, analysis and user participated design methods, some design criteria is generated for renewals of existing schools or designing of new schools.},author={Selda AL ŞENSOY-- Ayşe SAĞSÖZ},year={2015},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}