Students' Experiences of the Effectiveness of the Teaching Process during the Shortened Live School Classes Following the Online Teaching Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic (original) (raw)

2022, Empirical studies in psychology

During the 1st wave of the COVID-19 pandemic schools across the world were closed and classes went online. Experiences from the subsequent pandemic stages are less understood, partially due to countries adopting different strategies of transitioning back from online classes. In the Republic of Srpska (RS) specifically, in the second semester of 2020/21, students returned to schools for face-to-face lessons with a shortened duration of 20-30 instead of the standard 45 minutes. It is unknown how students perceived the education process during this period. Thus, to better understand the students' experiences and fears, in February 2021 we conducted an online survey of 673 RS high school students (65.8% girls) of all four grades. We focused on the students' fears about being able to get good grades & their satisfaction with the knowledge received during the shortened classes, and their perceived chances of being competitive in job markets or universities with that knowledge. Results show that RS high school students were only mildly dissatisfied with the shortened classes that took place in the transitional period following the online teaching phase of the pandemic. No specific worry emerged to any notable extend, with the overall dissatisfaction rate of 39%.

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