Impact of Learning in the COVID-19 Era on Academic Outcomes of Undergraduate Psychology Students

The COVID-19 pandemic, and the containment measures adopted by the different governments, led to a boom in online education as a necessary response to the crisis posed against the education system worldwide. This study compares the academic performance of students between face-to-face and online mod...

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Veröffentlicht in:Sustainability 2021-08, Vol.13 (16), p.8735
Hauptverfasser: Martin Ayala, Juan Luis, Castano Castano, Sergio, Hernandez Santana, Alba, Marti Gonzalez, Mariacarla, Brito Ballester, Julien
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Zusammenfassung:The COVID-19 pandemic, and the containment measures adopted by the different governments, led to a boom in online education as a necessary response to the crisis posed against the education system worldwide. This study compares the academic performance of students between face-to-face and online modalities in relation to the exceptional situation between the months of March and June 2020. The academic performance in both modalities of a series of subjects taught in the Psychology Degree at the European University of the Atlantic (Santander, Spain) was taken into account. The results show that student performance during the final exam in the online modality is significantly lower than in the face-to-face modality. However, grades from the continuous evaluation activities are significantly higher online, which somehow compensates the overall grade of the course, with no significant difference in the online mode with respect to the face-to-face mode, even though overall performance is higher in the latter. The conditioning factors and explanatory arguments for these results are also discussed.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su13168735