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The Impact of Indoor Lighting on Students’ Learning Performance in Learning

Environments: A knowledge internalization perspective

Sanaz Ahmadpoor Samani, PhD Student

University Technology Malaysia (UTM)
Malaysia

Soodeh Ahmadpoor Samani

Lecturer of Art
University of Applied Sciences
Iran

Abstract
The purpose of this study is to identify the influence of indoor lighting on students’ learning performance within
learning environments from knowledge internalization perspective. This study is a comprehensive review of
literatures base on the influence of indoor lighting on people’s productivity and performance especially students’
learning performance. The result that comes from this study shows that it is essential to improve lighting in
learning environments to enhance students’ learning performance and also motivate them to learn more. In this
study the researchers utilized Pulay (2010) survey and measured the influence of lighting on students’ learning
performance. Utilizing survey data collected from 150 students from Alpha course in Malaysia. This study found
significant impact between lighting quality and students’ learning performance this finding is also supported by
interview from two experts.

Keywords: students‟ learning performance, learning environments, lighting quality, students‟ motivation
1. Introduction
Many elements have affected into environments, and the environments have directly affected people. Well
designed environments make people happy and energize and vice versa. These elements start with building
structure and shape, and complete with color, light, outside viewing and furnish. Sometimes, the influence of light
in the environment is much more than other elements. Understanding the relationship between light and the
environment can help designers or architects to improve interior designs for better performance (Oneworkpalce,
1999).
In this study, the researchers have focused on the influence of light (indoor lighting) on students‟ learning
performance. Also this study observes this process from the knowledge internalization perspective which refers to
SECI model of knowledge conversion that came from Professor Ikujiro Nonaka and his colleague (Gourlay,
2003). The researchers mention the SECI model in this study because it is important to manage knowledge for a
variety of reasons, then having a good model to support this process also is equally significant. In 1998 Nonaka
and Konno introduced the “Japanese theory of Ba”, which related to the physical, relational and spiritual factors
of „place‟, or possibly „context‟. The SECI model (figure 1) shows the process of conversion, creation and
transition of information and knowledge from tacit to explicit and explicit to tacit. In fact, the environment and all
elements are exist in environment have very critical role and direct impact to these transition and creation of
knowledge (Rice & Rice, 2005).

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Figure 1, SECI model

Knowledge creation itself is a process of connections and interactions between two types of knowledge. These
two types of knowledge are explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge. Nonaka, Toyama and Konno (2000) indicate
that there are four types of knowledge conversion. These four are: socialization (tacit to tacit); externalization
(tacit to explicit); combination (explicit to explicit); and internalization (explicit to tacit) (Nonaka, Toyama, &
Konno, 2000).
In 1998 Nonaka and Konno established a third more challenging theory to the SECI model that called Ba, a
philosophical construct which rooted in Japanese society. This part relates to the physical and spiritual factors of
„place‟, or maybe more widely „context‟. Four different concepts of Ba are explained in relation to each of the
four parts of the SECI model main theory. They come together and make up the „knowledge spiral‟ that SECI
model is based on (Nonaka, Toyama, & Konno, 2000; Rice & Rice, 2005). According to Rice and Rice (2005)
four different concepts of Ba are:
1. The first one is the place where individuals can share emotions, experiences, feelings and perceptual
models that called “the Originating Ba”. It is about physical and face to face experiences are the key to
exchange and transfer of tacit knowledge. Professor Ikujiro Nonaka emphasizes that the physical contact
and relation is essential in originating Ba to make knowledge creation easier through Socialization. It is
the beginning and the first step of the knowledge creation process in SECI model.
2. The second one is the place where tacit knowledge is transmitted and documented to explicit that called
“the Dialoguing Ba”.
3. The third one refers to a virtual space that new technologies help to create new explicit knowledge by
recombination of existing explicit knowledge that called “the Systematizing Ba”.
4. 4. The forth one is a place that explicit knowledge is transformed into tacit knowledge that called “the
Exercising Ba”.
In 1998 Nonaka and Konno highlighted the cognitive scope and the task specific of tacit knowledge. They also
explained the emotional feeling and the spiritual features of knowledge and its positioned space. Knowledge
learning and cognition, they highlighted, appears from both straight experience and mental and physical
experience. Physical experience will come from the physical environment. Physical environment include all
elements within a place such as lighting, heating, texturing, furnishing and so on. These elements are some of
environmental features that should consider in environmental design and they also have effect on users‟ feeling
and outcomes. Schools systems or learning environments in general are the most critical environments with many
reciprocal actions (Higgins, Hall, Wall, Woolner, & McCaughey, 2005). Basic physical variables in environment
like noise, light, color, temperature have effect on learning in learning places. The schools‟ facilities are an
important infrastructure with many technical qualifications that must be correctly addressed to create the most
suitable spaces for student learning and teaching. In fact researches indicate that the physical environments
influence on students‟ achievement and behavior (Higgins, Hall, Wall, Woolner, & McCaughey, 2005; Tanner &
Langford, 2002). Besides lighting in interior schools design there are many other elements that might influence
students‟ performance. For instance, acoustics, maintenance, cleanliness of the school, color and color pattern,
textures of the floors and walls, classrooms flexibility, and safety (Tanner & Langford, 2002).

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There is a fact that people work better in places which they feel comfortable there (Oneworkplace, 1999;
Monteiro, 2012). Companies can increase job satisfaction by providing a good working environment, and this
truly worked in educational places as well. In fact, the well design environment has effect on users‟ health from
physically to mentally (Erwine & Heschong, 2002). Since learning has a special place and role in people‟s life;
providing such conditions to improve this situation need special attention. Today, by the speed of technology
growing the facilities for improving educational places are improved as well. Among all environmental elements
lighting has a very powerful impact in people‟s life and health (Oneworkplace, 1999). It also has a very essential
impact in people‟s productivity and performance.
Consistent with Veitch and Newsham (1998) while individuals able to answer all behavioural needs in a position
the lighting quality exists there. According to Veitch (2000) as cited by Mahbob, Kamaruzzaman, Salleh, &
Sulaiman (2011) this description has the advantage of being measurable, but it only considers the direct results of
the bright situations on the individuals. Besides that, architectural and economic considerations, as well as
individual well-being must be measured (Figure 2).

Figure.2 Lighting quality: the integration of individual well-being, architecture, and economics

1.1 Problem statement

The first problem is people have many elements in their environment, but they just take for established some of
them. However people just don‟t think about the quality of lighting. Even while there have been successful
improvement in lighting technology, unfortunately much of these results haven't been applied to support people
with their current situation in their studies or work environment (Larson, 1998). According to Monteiro (2012)
“lighting conditions in the majority of the workplaces are below recommended guidelines and the normalized
values ate more representative in workplaces with general and localized lighting.” The poor lighting and the lack
of attention to improve the lighting facilities or using daylight are critical problems that many organizations and
learning environments are faced with (Oneworkplace, 1999; Lyons, 2001). When students have a classroom that
have not well control of windows and lighting students‟ performance is negatively affected (Johnson, 2011).
Designing a learning place is the most critical and important situations that designers face with. But most of the
time this importance are rejected. And here the second problem comes out. For instance, in the term of designing
a workplace, designers must be aware because, they must design for three different perspectives: staffs and
management, users and designer. Rylander (2009) explained that these three perspectives have different meaning,
view and idea about the workplace environment.
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And they more have different view in terms of the interpretation of the role of office and the process for designing
that. For designing learning places, designers must have the same view. However, designing a learning place like
school or university is more critical than workplace because of the importance of learning and education in
people‟s life.
Many people spend the majority of their time in the work or learning places. So, good environmental designing in
school and universities is a kind of stimuli for students and even teachers to have better performance. The purpose
of this study is to discuss how learning environment like schools, universities and colleges must be designed to
provide a better atmosphere for learners. In this study, researchers try to express how lighting quality effects
students‟ learning performance. This is important to know light has a significant impact on people‟s performance
in the workplace and classrooms. Good lighting in learning places enhances users‟ (here students) performance
and enhance the overall performance. Evidence indicates that in general, appropriate lighting quality can increase
productivity and performance, decrease eyestrain and fatigue, and enhance an organization‟s opportunity for
success (Oneworkplace, 1999; Monteiro, 2012; Johnson, 2011).
1.2 Research model and hypotheses
Figure 3 shows the research model, which hypothesized: the relationship among lighting and students‟ learning
performance. Colour also has a kind of impact on students‟ learning performance specially while combining whit
light. Individual differences (here age and gender) moderate this relationship.

Colour

Lighting quality Students‟ learning

performance

Individual differences
(age, gender)

Figure 3: Research frame work base on variables

H1: There is a significant relationship among students‟ learning performance and the quality of light in
classrooms.
Lighting is a fundamental feature of the designing building environment. Good lighting should be comfortable for
all building users. With the modern technology designing a lighting system to meet all requirements of an
environment is possible (Bright, 2009). Environment illumination is very important for determining the users'
well-being and productivity. Illumination is a critical area that needs more attention from educators,
administrators, designers and maintenance teams. Illumination is not only about electric light it also consist of
direct natural light, indirect natural light, and indirect artificial light and reflected light, as well as the control of all
light resources (Fielding, 2006; John & Timothy, 2005; Liberman, 1990; Oneworkpalce, 1999)
Variable light applies a potential advantage in indoor office accommodations with respect to subjective or
emotional mood (Hoffmann, Gufler, Griesmancher, Bartenbach, & Canazei, 2008). Controlled daylight and
appropriate artificial illumination needs to be carefully addressed in schools as well because lighting is critical to
the quality of students performance (John & Timothy, 2005).
In the term of lighting, daylight has an especial place and catches too many focuses. Many studies have even
shown access to natural light and fresh air systems can increase health, comfort, and productivity (Gregg &
Ander, 2008).
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The other critical factor in the term of illumination is the way for controlling it in the learning environment.
Insufficient lighting controls can lead to many problems and as well as health problems like eyestrain to serious
musculoskeletal injuries, decreased attention span, increased body temperature and, accordingly poor students and
teachers performance (John & Timothy, 2005). According to Jago, and Tanner (1999) cited in Knirck (1970)
maintained that inappropriate illumination levels “abuse the human eye and have unfortunate physiological
consequences”.
Veitch (2010) have indicated six categories of human requirements addressed by lighting. These are visibility,
task performance, communication and social behavior, health and safety, mood and comfort, aesthetic, and
judgments. Good quality of lighting can support human needs; form contributes to conditions in all environments.
According to Juslen and Tenner (2005) since changing light is achievable certainly productivity and increase
performance via the following mechanism is possible:
1) Visual performance: When people can see the task clear definitely they work and perform that better.
Visual performance doesn‟t have clear deification and importance in all tasks. Some tasks do not need
much light in order to be performed well visually.
2) Visual comfort: By remove or decline discomfort glaring the performance will increase because
concentration will enhance.
3) Interpersonal relationship: when people can see each other better they can have better communication and
more cooperation.
Sine increasing the lighting quality will enhance well-being and motivation among people they will have better
performance. Therefore, solving existing lighting problem is very important because it will increase job
satisfaction in workplaces and encourage students in learning places for better performance and learn better.
Unsuitable lighting can be the cause of many problems, such as eyestrain to other graves musculoskeletal injuries.
Light arriving in human eyes has an essential non-visual biological effect on the human body, impacts human
health, well-being and efficiency (Oneworkpalce, 1999). Poor lighting has common exhibit on students or other
people as well as: red or bloodshot eyes after reading, be uncomfortable and fidgeting during reading or close
work activities, skipping words or lines while reading or writing (Johnson, 2011). Well designed lighting
environment can relieve eyes‟ strain, speed up the recognition of things, and increase visual stability or durability.
According to Veitch and Newsham (1998) the description of lighting quality exists when the environment
luminous are appropriate for the needs of the people who will use the space. These requirements are classified in
six groups:
1. visual performance;
2. post- visual performance such as eating, reading, walking and all activities;
3. communication and social interaction;
4. mood state such as happiness, performance;
5. aesthetic judgments;
6. safety and health;
For having proof of these six, Jago & Tanner cited in Higgins, et al (2005) “the visual environment affects
learner‟s ability to perceive visual stimuli and affects his/her mental attitude, and thus, performance.”(p.20)
2. Illuminating the Learning Environment
Learning places illuminating plays an especially critical role because of the direct relationship that good lighting
and students‟ performance have (Jago & Tanner, 1999). In fact, good lighting is very essential for any spaces that
planned for formal media presentation and training, or intended to support teamwork or individual. People need
enough and appropriate lighting system for reading or other visual tasks.
Few years ago, before use of electricity became extensive, schools and other learning environment depended
completely on uncontrolled natural daylight as the only lighting source. Lighting design moved away from natural
light while electricity appears, and classrooms designed with electric lighting sources as their primarily source of
light.
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On that time the numbers of windows in classrooms area were reduced, and classrooms environments became
disconnected from the outside environment. Therefore, because of that disconnection with outside environment
classrooms are psychologically suffocate (John & Timothy, 2005).
The visual environment affects a learner‟s skills to observe visual stimuli and affects his or her mental manner,
and then, performance. The fact is if students have motivation in their school‟s interior environment, they would
be more academically successful (Fielding, 2006; Pulay, 2010). The positive effect of lighting on students‟
learning performance occurs if it designed correctly. According to Pulay (2010) cited in Benya (2001) explained
“A well-lit classroom includes glare control, balanced brightness, higher reflectance ratings, and accent on the
focal wall.” (p.6)
Students must read many different surfaces, like papers or they should look on computer monitors. So they often
have to shift their gaze from “heads up” to “heads down,” therefore appropriate a high-quality illumination is very
critical and important (Pulay, 2010). Lighting in schools environment must be considered as a very vital,
fundamental and dynamic element of the whole educational environment (Dunn, 1985). Many elements have
directly effect on student performance from physical learning places environment but the influence of light is
much more than other elements. According to Jago, and Tanner (1999) the ability of students for think and
concentrate on instructions in schools depend on many factors ,and light is one of that factors that strongly
influenced in.
H2: Light has a noticeable psychological effect on students‟ well-begin, this effect will influence students‟
learning performance
The aim of lighting design is to supply appropriate illuminance, color temperature, and lighting to meet the
requirement of the users‟ vision form physical to psychological. Some people believe that lighting itself has no
effect on their performance. Some researchers also argue lighting has no effect on people‟s mood or performance.
But, in the other hand many people believe that lighting in environments has direct effect on their mood and it can
change their performance as well. For instance, most of people have spent some of their time in buildings that
may feel sick and uncomfortable, and they naturally desire to escape from that uncomfortable environment. That
could refer to the poor designing or insufficient lighting quality. There is a kind of stress on people‟s body that
can lead to disease or slow breakdown of biological function. The important point is that the human body wishes
to be healthy, and for having a very great physical and mental power it is necessary to have appropriate
environment. Each cell in human body is separately able to sense and respond correctly to both positive and
negative influences in environments (Rice, 2010). In fact, people have the skills in their bodies to know when a
place is good or bad for them. However, sometimes the negative stresses that people experience are slighter and
less noticeable or clear to them. As a result, Activation, arousal, and stress are three mental reactions that consider
to lighting (Rice, 2010).
Regardless the impact of physical effect of lighting the effect of psychological impact of lighting is stronger.
Light sends a visual massage to peoples‟ mind which can affect people‟s incentive levels and moods. Light also
affects people‟s biological clock such as sleeping and waking period. In addition, light for propel in their
environments works like an alert that can be cause of many changes in people‟s mood. And any changes in
people‟s moods can be a cause of physical problems or health. This attitude of lighting can be very tangible by
changing seasons in the world and the influence of that in all animate stuffs like people, animals, and plants.
Therefore, learning places should design in a way to meet the varying learners‟ needs of learners form beginning
levels till university. In general light and bright colors make people feel joyful and uplifted (Ocvirk, Stinson,
Wigg, Bone, & Cayton, 2009). Also, the installation of fluorescent lighting all around the room is one of the
attractive options for classrooms at all levels. This action can make the space brighter. By installation all-around
high level of illumination, rather than focusing light on desktops, can have suitable psychological plus
environment in classrooms for students and teachers working within (John & Timothy, 2005).
H3: Other environmental element such as color has effect on lighting quality and overall students‟ learning
performance.
H4: Individual differences (age and gender) moderate the impact of lighting on students‟ learning performance.

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Environmental designers and psychologists have confirmed that the provision of choices in the physical
environment will lead to pleasing consequences for employees, such as better performance and improved mood
(Veitch & Gifford, 1996). There are too many elements that may have effect on building design namely: light,
color, furnishers, and so on. Goodrinch as cited by Evans (1984) suggests that, "such things as the color, the
temperature, the variation of natural light, its soft texture and its ambiences are important, but abandoned factors
of lighting."(p.9) This means even the role of other elements in environment are very important and remarkable,
but not as important as lighting. Sometimes, too many considering to other elements is the main cause of
abandoned attention to the quality of lighting (Evans, 1984). Based on the literature review, the relationship
between office design and productivity can be conceptualized and described in figures (4, 5). The figure 4 shows
the set of factors which impact on an individual productivity (in the term of increased productivity). And Figure 5
which adopted from Veitch (2001) shows relationships between lighting conditions, individual processes, and
individual outcomes. These factors have different impacts on different employees based on the personal
differences (e.g. age and gender).

Figure 4- Five indicators of office design such as furniture, noise, temperature, lighting and spatial
arrangement are considered for study

The Role of Color: Color is an essential factor in the physical learning environment, and is one of the most
important elements in interior design, because it can support light and enhance the impact of lighting on users.
Color can make light brighter or darker than normal. Color, is a main designing elements which can be used to
create an enriched learning environment while additions to interior form, space, light, and texture (Daggett,
Cobble, & Gertel, 2008). Using color in learning environments and classrooms designing will motivate students
to learn better. The variety of Color in learning environment reduces tedium and passivity. It also impacts
students‟ performance, as well as teacher and staff efficiency. Hence, “classrooms should incorporate a variety of
colors (based on age, gender, subject and activity) to reduce monotony and visually refresh perception.” (Daggett
et al., 2008) For having better performance in classrooms the right combination of light and color is essential.
Same as light and the influences of that color is the other significant element that directly affects people emotion.
This effect can increase or decries people‟s performance as well. Actually colors play an important role in whole
part of people's life and environmental design. Different colors have different effect on people. Warm colors (like
red and orange) and cool colors (like blue and green) have different psychological meanings and different
outcome into people's feeling. For instance, researches show that workers face with more errors in the white office
than in the color offices (Bellizzi, Croweley & Hasty, 1983; Ocvirk, Stinson, Wigg, Bone, & Cayton, 2009).
People have different reaction to various colors and lights, and the combination of them. For example, blue
interiors for fashion-oriented stores, are associated more favorable evaluations, make them more attractive, than
orange interiors. However, the result of effecting lighting after combining with color is different. Applying soft
lights with an orange interior generally remove the ill effects of orange (Babin, Hardesty, & Suter, 2003).
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According to Halliday (2008) a good artificial lighting strategy has efficient feature. It will usually be valuable
and more efficient with combination by good daylight and suitable color and make task easier to do. Where
artificial light and daylight are combined, then lamps should be filtered from view to avoid glare and direct
contrast between daylight and a uncover lamp. There are some issues to consider for utilizing artificial light
include types of lamps, color and luminaries, and problems such as flicker, glare and reflection.

2.1 The Effect of Lighting on different Gender and Age

In 2001 Knez found that females were more sensitive to light than males. Also, he found that they performed in a
different way in different kinds of lighting. Results which come from a study by Knez & Kers (2000) different
color of the indoor lighting may express different meanings to different genders (Knez & Kers, 2000). In general
the effect of indoor lighting on mood and performance of people differentiated by gander, this also makes sense
when it comes with age as well.
Human visual systems decline with age, and older eyes permit less light to arrive at the retina than do younger
eyes. As people age they become more dependent on their environment to compensate for increasing frailty and
sensory loss. Good lighting is a key to creating successful living, working and learning environment, and is
necessary to ensure safety, as well as, well-being, health and quality of life. Advanced quality and quantities of
suitable and right lighting can help reduce the effects of normal aging vision and increase the abilities of older
adults (Myerson, Bichard & Erlich, 2010)

3. Conclusion and The Result Of Data Analysis

For measuring independent and dependent variables, SPSS software is used. This study investigated a regression
model. The first testing is related to the relationship between lighting and students‟ learning performance. That
means the relationship between lighting and students‟ performance to answer the main question of research
questions. The result of this regression shows that R-square and adjusted R-square is high. Therefore, they are
satisfactory and acceptable. Thus there is a significant relationship between lighting and students‟ performance.
The result of regression indicates that due to the beta here is 0.776 and the p-value is 0.000 that is less than 0.05.
Therefore the relationship between lighting and students‟ performance is acceptable. Also, since p-value is less
than 0.05, lighting has significant effect over student‟s performance.
This statement also is supported by experts‟ interview. Both experts agree with the importance of lighting in
classrooms and the influence of that on students‟ performance. They argued that lighting quality has direct
influence on students‟ learning performance. According to the experts interview “Good lighting classrooms can
motivate students for better learning.” In a good lighting classroom students are more relax, do not sleepy, and
they have a kind of motivation in that place to learn better. Also “the quality of light in classrooms consider how
students concentrate to what they should done or working on.” The good learning environments that include the
appropriate lighting quality will be a kind of intangible motivation and encouragement for students to learn better.
It can lead them to focus on their tasks and working better on subjects. Also according to experts interview adjust
lighting in classrooms can increase students‟ attention and it can increase their performance. Appling light in
classrooms or studios base on the subject is very important concept. This means if students have to write
something the way that light must apply is different from while they need to look at something in classrooms
board. Standing light depend on the subject of the study will essential for all studios and classrooms too.
According to students responding poor lighting in classrooms make them sleepy and they cannot focus on their
subject easily. Students also understand by increasing the lighting their performance will be increased. Evidence
which came from this study indicated that combination of two types (daylight and artificial light which include
both yellow and Fluoresce lighting) of lighting in classrooms can help students to have better lighting quality.
Base on the all results lighting has a very powerful and essential role on students‟ learning performance on
learning places. According to all evidence lighting and the way of applying that in learning places is depend on
the subject of study. Lighting control to avoid discomfort and glare in all different types of lighting is very
important. Also students feel and act well in a place with a good lighting quality. The best lighting quality comes
from the combination of daylight or natural light and artificial light (Erwine & Heschong, 2002).

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Designers, teachers and all people who are involved with educational environments must consider about the
lighting and controlling that. Physical area in designing is very important and lighting is one of the most important
features in physical area in all environments especially in educational and working environments (Knez & Kers,
2000).
According to Jago & Tanner (1999) physical environmental elements such as lighting, heating and acoustics are
three aspects that should consider in schools‟ environment. As well as the overall design of the school, this will
surround these aspects. Among these three elements lighting has a special place. Understanding the influences of
lighting quality on environment can enhance the learners‟ performance in educational places. Providing an
appropriate lighting quality with the combination of daylight and artificial light in classrooms will motivate
students to learn more and it will improve their performance. Therefore, the importance of a suitable visual
environment for learning environments deserves careful attention (Jago & Tanner, 1999; Johnson, 2011).

Figure 5, which adopted from Veitch (2001) showing relationships between lighting conditions, individual
processes, and individual outcomes.

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