comparison of the educational space of public and non-public schools, the case study: Karaj high schools

This study has been done to assess the educational space condition and the correlation between the educational space and the educational performance of junior high school girl students in Karaj. The research method regarding the aim is functional and according to the collecting data is descriptive-correlative. Statistical community of the study involves 104 schools and 23192 junior high school girl students in Karaj. 10 schools and 384 students were selected by stratified random sampling. The instrument is the researcher-made list for educational space assessment and the educational performance questionnaire extracted from Dortaj standard questionnaire(1383).Construct validity was used for instrument validity and Cronbach Alpha was exerted for the reliability of the questionnaire. The amount of the reliability of educationl performance scale is 0.794. The condition of the educational performance was in the desirable level. There were significant correlations between natural light amount ,light direction, student number, board kind, visibility of writings on the board , thermal and cooler facilities,board height up to teaching platform, class arrangement, and class color with educational performance or its components. Some components of the educational space consisting student number, board kind, board distance up to first row, board height up to teaching platform, class arrangement, , class color, class windows number, class windows size, natural light amount, light direction, visibility of writings on the board, class temperature, and neribouring placesand the components of educational performance consisting emotional effects, planning, consequence control absence, and motivation had significant differences in public and non-public schools .