Illuminance Level Measurement at Lower Working Plane Height in Islamic Religious School
Islamic religious school is an institution that integrates Quran hafazan (memorization) in the curriculum. Between 2011 to 2017, estimated that 900 new Islamic religious schools were established in Malaysia due to high demands. Designing a classroom layout that receives sufficient daylight is impo...
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Universiti Teknologi MARA
2020
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/35928/1/religious1.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/35928/ https://myjms.mohe.gov.my/index.php/AJUE/article/view/11076 https://doi.org/10.24191/ajue.v16i3.11076 |
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| Summary: | Islamic religious school is an institution that integrates Quran hafazan (memorization) in the
curriculum. Between 2011 to 2017, estimated that 900 new Islamic religious schools were established in
Malaysia due to high demands. Designing a classroom layout that receives sufficient daylight is important
because it influences the students’ task performance such as reading and writing. The standards recommend
that any classrooms require an illuminance level between 300 lx to 500 lx when measured at working plane
height between 800mm to 900mm, although the working plane height of rehal used for hafazan is between
250mm to 300mm. This study focused on the illuminance level measured at rehal working plane height for
Arabic handwriting as a hafazan learning task in two selected standardised classrooms at Kolej Genius
Insan. The students were required to rewrite the modified Balsam Alabdulkader-Leat (BAL) Arabic eye
chart, where the students’ Arabic handwriting performance were evaluated based on their word per minute
(wpm) scores. Both classrooms’ average illuminance level were 507 lx to 603 lx, which were too high based
on standards and guidelines. The average Arabic handwriting scores for both classrooms were 9.4 and 12.6 wpm, which shows that the inefficient average illuminance level has caused the students’ performance to be very low. It can be concluded that the existing standardised classroom layout design was not suitable for hafazan learning tasks at rehal working plane height. Thus, the classroom layout design for Islamic religious schools needed further studies, which implicated the unsatisfied built environment of the classrooms and the school education for Islamic religious schools in Malaysia. |
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