The Effect of Covid-19 on Academic Performance of Students: Government High School

Abstract

In spring 2019, outbreak of COVID-19 virus epidemic turned into a pandemic which led to serious health threat to global public health. In pandemic, educational institutions all around the world adjourn the offline classes and shift to online classes. This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the effect of COVID -19 on academic performance of high school student, studying in Viswa Niketan Higher Secondary School, i.e. Government community school.

A sample size of 422 participants was collected. The collection was done using questionnaire sheet distributed to students. Data analysed using SPSS version 21. Total no of participant who enrolled in study was 422. including high school students, teachers, researcher etc. The data represented the effect of Covid-19 on academic performance of most participant enrolled in study was 99.7%. The mean evaluation of online learning in general was 5.05 ± 3.25 and mean evaluation of practical class in online learning 3.82±2.3. Online classes alternative to offline classes, but beneficial for students during pandemic period.  Online classes provide opportunity for self-study, low economical cost, save time and develops skills and make familiar to digital world from any corner of the world. High school syllabus contains theory and practical portion; theory portion was easy to grab online at the same moment difficult to garb practical portion. The practical portion requires demonstration, student-teacher interaction etc.so it is recommended that online study should be made more effective by using 3d tools, animation, hiring of trained manpower, so that content should be presented with more reliable and interesting way.

Int. J. Appl. Sci. Biotechnol. Vol 14(2): 78-87.