Evaluation of Education Results During the Covid-19 Pandemic by Students Involved in Professional and Amateur Sports

Abstract

The article is devoted to the actual problem associated with the introduction in March 2020 in educational institutions of e-learning and learning using distance learning technologies in order to prevent the spread of a new coronavirus infection. Students involved in professional and amateur sports during the pandemic faced additional difficulties associated with a completely remote format for mastering the educational program and conducting training. The purpose of the study is to identify the assessment by students involved in professional and amateur sports of the level of formation of their professional and supra-professional competencies in the context of organizing the educational process exclusively with the use of distance learning technologies and e-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Materials and methods. The study included 110 students of the KSPU named after. V.P. Astafiev and KrasSMU named after prof. V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky: 62 professional athletes, and 48 students involving in amateur sports. Instrumental methods of research and electronic questioning Google Forms were used. Statistical analysis was carried out using the Microsoft Office Excel 2017 software package and Google Forms. Research results. More than half of the students noted significant differences in the formation of their professional competencies in the conditions of the pandemic (52.36% of respondents in both groups noted a decrease in the level of academic competencies, in 47.64% the level did not change). Students noted a sharp decrease in the level of formation of supra-professional competences (soft skills). Only emotional intelligence remained unchanged for the majority (53.64% of respondents), 46.36% noted its decline. Conclusions. Empirically obtained data allow us to state that the implementation of the educational process using exclusively e-learning and distance learning, in the opinion of students of educational institutions of higher education involved in professional and amateur sports, negatively affects the effectiveness of the educational process: 52.36% have a decrease in the level of formation of professional competencies and there is a sharp decrease in the level of supra-professional competences (the level of formation of cognitive intelligence, creativity, critical thinking, the level of communication).