1. A COMPARATIVE STUDY REGARDING FACE-TO-FACE AND ONLINE LEARNING APPROACH DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AMONG PRE-UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN MALAYSIA
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Azma Abdul Malek, Siti Noor Syuhada Muhammad Amin, Siti Maisarah Aziz, Sharifah Wajihah Wafa Syed Saadun Tarek Wafa, Nurul Asma Hasliza Zulkifly, Aida Othman, Salmiah Jamal Mat Rosid, Nurulhuda Mohammad Yusoff, Nurul Najidah Mohamed, Siti Norziahidayu Amzee Zamri, Noor Asidah Mohamed, and Fauziah Ab. Wahab
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academic performance ,covid-19 ,face-to-face ,pre-university ,online learning ,Science ,Social Sciences - Abstract
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has caused many fallouts in human daily activities including teaching, learning and examination activities. Students of the Science and Medicine Foundation programme, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA), Malaysia, were also affected by the situation where the usual face-to-face (F2F) learning sessions were turned into online sessions. This study aims to examine the impact of online learning on students' academic performance among UniSZA foundation students. It is a retrospective study that involved 251 students who completed the foundation studies between 2020 (intake year 2019/2020) and 2021 (intake year 2020/2021). The mid-semester one assessment grades of Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Information Technology courses were used as the primary comparative factor in assessing performance differences between online and F2F learning. Continuous variables were compared with the independent t-test. A p-value obtained from SPSS that was less than 0.05 (p
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- 2023