Review about Online Educational Guidance during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost every area of our lives. It meant a break from our lifestyles, transforming everything from face-to-face to online. Among the places where this situation has become more evident are primary schools, secondary schools, and universities, which have had to adopt online teaching in its entirety. Faced with this situation, the work of the educational counsellors was essential to coordinate the centre with the families and to enable students to follow the classes in the best way possible. The objective of this study is to analyse the scientific literature about online educational guidance, with a focus on the COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve this, a scoping review inspired by the PRISMA model was done. A total of 42 articles were studied. The main results show that many counsellors were at a disadvantage and in a very stressful situation, as they did not have the necessary digital training. On the other hand, this situation has been the first contact for many counsellors with the use of ICT within their profession and in an unexpected situation, without time for training or enough preparation.

School counselors' attitude toward online counseling services during the pandemic: The effects of resilience and digital self‐efficacy

“…According to the previous research examining the effect of COVID‐19 on school counseling use, there has been a decrease in the number of individuals using these services and the number of sessions provided (O'Connor, 2020). In addition, many school counselors have faced the use of ICT within their profession for the first time and experienced significant distress due to the lack of digital training (Mielgo‐Conde et al, 2021). These results signal some glitches in the online counseling services during the pandemic.…”

“…Many counselors had to perform online counseling without prior experience or knowledge about it together with the pandemic. Although many studies investigated the use of ICT during the pandemic (Mielgo‐Conde et al, 2021), the information is scarce about their attitudes toward online counseling services during the pandemic (e.g., Foon et al, 2020; Maurya et al, 2020). Therefore, the present study aims to investigate school counselors' attitudes toward the delivery of online counseling services during the COVID‐19 pandemic.…”

“…Despite its advantages and disadvantages, online counseling became common and compulsory at schools together with online education during the pandemic, many counselors had to perform online counseling without prior experience or knowledge about it (Mielgo‐Conde et al, 2021). Consistently, Mielgo‐Conde et al (2021) reported that the number of studies investigating online educational counseling and ICT resources during the pandemic has tripled the number of previous studies on this topic. These previous studies have revealed several factors that are likely to impact the intention to use online counseling services.…”

Nationality as an Influential Variable with Regard to the Social Skills and Academic Success of Immigrant Students

“…Through this situation, new deficiencies related to the digital and social divide of different sectors of the Spanish student population have been revealed [60]. These include the problems of connection to the Internet, the lack of technological resources, and the scarcity of training of many teachers for the didactic use of technologies as the most notable deficits [61]. This is particularly the case in minority ethnic and cultural groups, whose migratory situation positions them, in some cases, as students at risk of social exclusion [62].…”

Constatative Study on the Benefits of Physical Education Hours Held online for Gymnasium Cycle Students

“…The World Health Organization has officially declared a pandemic situation caused by the spread of the Covid-19 virus and since March 11, 2020, and rigorous quarantine measures have been applied to all countries. Thus, due to the start of this pandemic context, abrupt changes in education have emerged, most educational institutions being forced to embrace the idea of further sharing values and knowledge to students through online learning platforms [5], [8].…”