Cognitive and Affective-Motivational Factors as Predictors of Students' Home Learning During the School Lockdown.

ABSTRACT: During the COVID-19 pandemic, students were facing great challenges. Learning was shifted from the classroom to the home of the students. This implied that students had to complete their tasks in a more autonomous way than during regular lessons. As students' ability to handle such challenges might depend on certain cognitive and motivational prerequisites as well as individual learning conditions, the present study investigates students' cognitive competencies as well as affective-motivational factors as possible predictors of coping with this new learning situation at home. The study uses data of Starting Cohort 2 of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). Data of two measurement points are analyzed: Predictors were assessed at the earlier time point, when students (N=

SUBMITTER: Lockl K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8692791 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature