1. Factors Influencing Effectiveness of Pandemic Distance Learning – Preliminary Findings From a Complex Survey
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Kohout, Jiří, Buršíková, Dana, Frank, Jan, Lukavský, Jindřich, Masopust, Pavel, Motlíková, Iva, Rohlíková, Lucie, Slavík, Jan, Stacke, Václav, Vejvodová, Jana, and Voltrová, Michaela
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distance learning ,covid-19 pandemic ,effectiveness - Abstract
This study is focused on identification of factors affecting the effectiveness of pandemic distance learning both on the side of students and teachers. The attention is devoted also to prevalence and perceived usefulness of the individual distance learning approaches and activities. We recruited 35 teachers of Czech language, German language, geography, mathematics, physics (seven per each subject). Questionnaires for teachers and students were developed on the basis of focus groups held with the teachers and an extensive literature search. 70 classes (two per each teacher) and more than 1400 students participated in the research. We found that preference to the online communication and attitudes towards distance learning among students are predictors of the effectiveness of distance learning. Sufficiently developed executive functions were also important for its managing. The perceived usefulness of individual activities by teachers and students strongly correlated with the prevalence of these activities during distance learning and the conventional approaches such as explanation of the learning content by teacher with shared screen were assessed as more useful than activities requiring higher level of activization of students (e.g. long-term project, group presentation). The findings presented here are a starting point for more in-depth going data analysis leading at the end to an onlineavailable screening tool which should help teachers to identify students who are in danger of lowered effectiveness during the distance learning.
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- 2022