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Noise pollution can be defined as any unwanted or offensive sound that unreasonably intrude into
and disturb our daily lives. The environmental noise contributes to developmental learning,
particularly in regard to speech, language and reading. Due to ongoing developments, insufficient
infrastructure, increase in vehicles and absence of good learning place, the ideal conducive
educational setting is disappeared. The noise in and around schools has lead to more widespread
problem of children’s learning behavior because noise is not only hazardous to children's mental
abilities but to their overall well-being as well. The study is carried out to evaluate the impact of
noise on students in a congested area of Rawalpindi with the main objective to investigate and
assess negative impacts of noise on students and teachers to provide a better understanding of how
and why sound affects on learning ability of students. Saidpur road had been selected being a
densely populated and busy road, which runs parallel to Murree road at 0.5 kilometers distance
apart and originate from Pandora Chowk to Banni Chowk with an approximate length of 6.0
kilometers. Four schools were selected as sample schools for the study on this road. A sample
population of 100 students and 20 teachers were selected for the questionnaire survey by taking 25
students and 5 teachers from each school. Questionnaire was designed to gather students’ and
teachers’ perception about the noise problem in their schools. The sound pressure levels were
recorded with the help of sound level meter (A-Weighted) on the road, inside school compound and
in the occupied classrooms. The results obtained from study are compared with World Health
Organization Standards on noise levels for classroom. It is concluded that noise levels are higher
than the recommended levels in all the schools and have serious impact on student learning.
Javeed Akhtar, Nomana Anjum, Nazia Iftikhar. (2013) Evaluation of the impact of noise pollution on students in congested area of Rawalpindi , Research Journal of Pakistan Home Economics Association, Volume-7, Issue-1.
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