This is the first of eight articles that will focus on exploring the data analysis methods highlighted in the “8 Tips For Getting The Most Out Of Your Teaching Space Utilisation Data” article. If you haven’t had a chance to read this, it’s worth checking it out as these eight techniques will really help you to get the most out of your teaching space.
This article will focus on the first of the eight techniques, “Teaching Rooms With Low Frequency Rates” and I will go through the information gathering and investigation process I typically go through as part of the Teaching Space Utilisation Survey and Consultancy service that Education Space Consultancy offers in order to understand why some certain rooms have low frequency rates.
For the rest of this article I will presume that you a) have “actual” teaching space utilisation data over at least a week and b) you know how to calculate room frequency rate and how to find those rooms with the lowest and highest frequency rates. If you would like to collect teaching [Read more…]