The Impact of Online Teaching on High School Students' Academic Stress

Abstract

When the Covid-19 hit China in 2019, Chinese schools adopted online teaching to minimize the spread of the epidemic. After the outbreak passed, online teaching remained, and many students experienced academic stress while online teaching, causing anxiety for both students and parents. It is necessary to investigate the factors that contribute to academic stress when online teaching. The research used a questionnaire to survey more than three hundred high school students in several districts to find out the factors that cause academic stress during online teaching. The results show that three factors can influence academic stress during online teaching. Firstly, there is a significant positive correlation between duration of the online course and the academic stress. Secondly, the correlation between the number of one-to-one online courses and the amount of academic stress is students have more one-to-one online courses, the academic stress fewer. Third, correlation between the number of subjects in an online course and academic stress is also significant. What’s more, there are many other factors can influence students’ academic stress during the online learning. First, a good family environment is conducive to reduce online teaching stress: the family environment better, the academic stress during online teaching fewer. Second, cultivating students' self-control is helpful for reducing online teaching stress: students are more self-control, academic stress during online teaching fewer. Third, teacher-student interaction facilitates is conductive to reduce online teaching stress: teacher interact with students more times, academic stress during online teaching.