Effect of COVID-19 on the Performance of Grade 12 Students: Implications for STEM Education

Sintema, Edgar John

doi:10.29333/ejmste/7893

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“…This pauses a great danger and an outbreak like COVID-19 can rapidly spread. This is consistent with (Sintema, 2020) who also posited that schools are the breeding grounds and dangerous places for the spread of the virus. Because of this most students or learners are forced to be in their homes.…”

Section: Covid-19 and Digital-learning Platforms In Zambiasupporting

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Is COVID-19 the Gateway for Digital Learning in Mathematics Education?

Mulenga

Prieto

2020

CONTEMP EDUC TECHNOL

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Digital learning has reshaped education in many ways. The purpose of this study is to respond to the question of whether COVID-19 is the gateway for digital-learning in mathematics education. To this end, this study explores some uptakes of social media platforms by prospective secondary school teachers. Data was collected from 102 prospective mathematics teachers from the Copperbelt University (CBU). Cluster analysis approach was used. Results revealed that participants' scores for digital learning in mathematics in cluster 2 were higher than those in both cluster 1 and 3. This is a clear indication that prospective teachers in clusters with low scores are more likely to exhibit low skill levels in the use of mobile technology and the adoption of social media in relation to mathematics pedagogy during the COVID-19 crisis. Results show different patterns. However, overall results show that digital learning could be a positive response to COVID-19 closure period.

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Section: Covid-19 and Digital-learning Platforms In Zambiasupporting

confidence: 88%

Is COVID-19 the Gateway for Digital Learning in Mathematics Education?

Mulenga

Prieto

2020

CONTEMP EDUC TECHNOL

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“…A recent study of high school students suggested that school closures and concerns over COVID-19 are significantly impacting performance of students in their subject areas ( Viner et al, 2020 ) and will continue to have a lasting impact on our education system. While limited data is available, similar educational and economic impacts are also being found outside of the United States ( Sintema, 2020 ).…”

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A country comparison of place-based activity response to COVID-19 policies

McKenzie

Adams

2020

Applied Geography

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The emergence of the novel Coronavirus Disease in late 2019 (COVID-19) and subsequent pandemic led to an immense disruption in the daily lives of almost everyone on the planet. Faced with the consequences of inaction, most national governments responded with policies that restricted the activities conducted by their inhabitants. As schools and businesses shuttered, the mobility of these people decreased. This reduction in mobility, and related activities, was recorded through ubiquitous location-enabled personal mobile devices. Patterns emerged that varied by place-based activity. In this work the differences in these place-based activity patterns are investigated across nations, specifically by focusing on the relationship between government enacted policies and changes in community activity patterns. By addressing five research questions, we show that people's activity response to government action varies widely both across nations as well as regionally within them. Three assessment measures, namely cosine similarity, lag response, and subregional variation, are devised and the results correlate with a number of global indices. We discuss these findings and the relationship between government action and residents' response.

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“…Different studies have shown that although there are some examples of having a plan of using the distance/online learning during the pandemic, they are mostly concentrated on small cases and not a global crisis as it is happening in COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Especially the countries that are having the limited technologies have problems in schools are not ready for the complete implementation of the countrywide online education (Sintema J, 2020). Results of different studies shows that the virtual teaching environments can be successfully used in school or higher education in case of having appropriate technical environment and support.…”

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Transition to Online Education in Schools during a SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic in Georgia

Basilaia¹,

Kvavadze²

2020

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The situation in general education in Georgia has changed in the spring semester of 2020, when the first case of coronavirus COVID-19 infection was detected rising to 211 local and more than 1,5 million infection cases worldwide by the Apr. 8. 2020. Georgia became one of 188 countries worldwide that has suspended the education process.The paper studies the capacities of the country and its population to continue the education process at the schools in the online form of distance learning, study reviews the different available platforms and indicates the ones that were used by the support of the government, such as online portal, TV School and Microsoft teams for public schools and the alternatives like Zoom, Slack and Google Meet, EduPage platform that can be used for online education and live communication and gives examples of their usage.Authors made a case study, where the Google Meet platform was implemented for online education in a private school with 950 students, shows the usage statistics generated by the system for the first week of the online education process. Results confirm that the quick transition to the online form of education went successful and gained experience can be used in the future. The experience and studies can be useful for other countries that have not found the ways of transition yet.The lesson learned from the pandemic of 2020 will force a generation of new laws, regulations, platforms and solutions for future cases, when the countries, government and population will be more prepared than today.

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Effect of COVID-19 on the Performance of Grade 12 Students: Implications for STEM Education

Cited by 611 publications

References 6 publications

Is COVID-19 the Gateway for Digital Learning in Mathematics Education?

Is COVID-19 the Gateway for Digital Learning in Mathematics Education?

A country comparison of place-based activity response to COVID-19 policies

Transition to Online Education in Schools during a SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic in Georgia

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