Influence of COVID-19 confinement on students’ performance in higher education
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · Universitat Oberta de Catalunya · +1 more institution
Abstract
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…
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7Topics & keywords
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Workload
- Mathematics education
- 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
- Psychology
- Medical education
- Medicine
- Quality Education