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Journal Article
Influence of COVID-19 confinement on students’ performance in higher education
2020
Overview
This study analyzes the effects of COVID-19 confinement on the autonomous learning performance of students in higher education. Using a field experiment with 458 students from three different subjects at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), we study the differences in assessments by dividing students into two groups. The first group (control) corresponds to academic years 2017/2018 and 2018/2019. The second group (experimental) corresponds to students from 2019/2020, which is the group of students that had their face-to-face activities interrupted because of the confinement. The results show that there is a significant positive effect of the COVID-19 confinement on students' performance. This effect is also significant in activities that did not change their format when performed after the confinement. We find that this effect is significant both in subjects that increased the number of assessment activities and subjects that did not change the student workload. Additionally, an analysis of students' learning strategies before confinement shows that students did not study on a continuous basis. Based on these results, we conclude that COVID-19 confinement changed students' learning strategies to a more continuous habit, improving their efficiency. For these reasons, better scores in students' assessment are expected due to COVID-19 confinement that can be explained by an improvement in their learning performance.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Adult
/ Betacoronavirus - isolation & purification
/ Control
/ Coronavirus Infections - pathology
/ Coronavirus Infections - virology
/ COVID-19
/ Educational Measurement - statistics & numerical data
/ Female
/ Humans
/ Learning
/ Male
/ Medicine and Health Sciences
/ Pneumonia, Viral - pathology
/ Spain
/ Stay-at-home orders (Public safety)
/ Students
/ Students, Medical - statistics & numerical data
/ Teaching
