Predicting how a disrupted semester during the COVID-19 pandemic impacted student learning
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Published:2022
Issue:2
Volume:2
Page:140
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ISSN:2767-1925
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Container-title:STEM Education
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language:
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Short-container-title:STEME
Author:
Riegel Kaitlin1, Evans Tanya2
Affiliation:
1. Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 2. Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; t.evans@auckland.ac.nz
Abstract
<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Tertiary education faced unprecedented disruption resulting from COVID-19 driven lockdowns around the world, leaving educators with little understanding of how the pandemic and consequential shift to online environments would impact students′ learning. Utilising the theoretical framework of a student′s <i>affective field</i>, this study aimed to investigate how student achievement, achievement-related affect, and self-perceived well-being contributed to predicting how their learning was impacted. Questionnaire responses and academic achievement measures from students (<i>N</i> = 208) in a New Zealand second-year, tertiary mathematics course were analysed. Despite a return to in-person teaching after eliminating community-transmission of the virus, students reported larger impacts of the disruption to semester on both their learning and well-being at the end of the term than during the lockdown. Hierarchical multiple regression revealed that gender, prior achievement, performance on low-stakes assessment, as well as exam-related self-efficacy and hope, made significant, independent contributions to explaining students′ perceived learning impact. Even when controlling for achievement and achievement-related affect, students′ perceived impact to their well-being made a significant and substantial contribution to the impact on their learning. The findings provide motivation to further investigate whether attempts to address student achievement-related affect can help mitigate the effects of major life disruptions on studying. We suggest that frequent, low-stakes assessment can identify students who are more likely to report greater negative impacts to their learning. We finally conclude that student well-being is paramount to how students perceive their own learning, even when controlling for actual measures of and about their achievement.</p>
Publisher
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
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