Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in higher education: A data driven analysis for the knowledge acquisition process.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly changed the classroom context and presented enormous challenges for all actors in the educational process, who had to overcome multiple difficulties and incorporate new strategies and tools to construct new knowledge. In this work we analyze how student performance was affected, for a particular case of higher education in La Plata, Argentina. We developed an analytical model for the knowledge acquisition process, based on a series of surveys and information on academic performance in both contexts: face-to-face (before the onset of the pandemic) and virtual (during confinement) with 173 students during 2019 and 2020. The information collected allowed us to construct an adequate representation of the process that takes into account the main contributions comm

SUBMITTER: Velasquez-Rojas F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9451099 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature