Reliability and Validity Analysis on the Relationship between Learning Space, Student’s Satisfaction and Perceived Performance Using SMART-PLS

Abstract

This pilot study aims to examine the possibility of the association between learning space attributes of the environmental, design & facilities with student’s satisfaction and perceived performance in an academic building. Hence, this pilot survey was conducted in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Perak Branch, Seri Iskandar Campus, Malaysia. A pilot questionnaire was administrated and collected from 50 students, where respondents were asked to select their preferences based on a five-point Likert scale of agreement and satisfaction for Section B and multiple answer question for Section A. Results of the pilot survey indicated that there is a significant relationship between the learning space attributes of the environmental, design & facilities with student’s satisfaction and perceived performance in an academic building especially of all the independent variables of the study. These results highlighted the importance of the learning space attributes such as the environmental, design & facilities in perceiving student’s satisfaction and perceived performance. Analysis of this pilot study was conducted by using PLS-SEM: SMART-PLS Version 3.2 to examine the reliability and validity of the questionnaire, thus, determining the significance of every independent variables and dependent variable in the research. The result further confirmed that the instrument used in this pilot study fulfil the acceptable requirements of the reliability and validity ranged for main data collection purpose of the intended study.