Impact on school performance under SARS-COV2 pandemic conditions

Abstract

With the pandemic emerging, students all over the world stopped going physically to school, switching the face to face modality to long distance education creating a chaos due the sudden event. The Covid-19 Education World Coalition estimated that a large percentage of students and teachers were not prepared for distance teaching-learning since they lacked digital skills and the necessary devices for its correct implementation given the haste derived from the contingency. Likewise, a percentage of students would not have sufficient resources to face the new reality.

In response to this, each country adopted different policies to reopen schools with strict restrictions while teachers and students have continued with their digital adaptation process, creating teaching-learning spaces with right-guesses and mistakes in the use of tools and apps. In this scenario it looks like the digital technology in education came to stay, even with the face-to-face education, which is why it is interesting to understand how the pandemic modify different students habits in the professional courses in higher education in order to adapt them to face-to-face education, therefore, this research focuses on determining, under a virtual education scheme, the time dedicated to six daily aspects that impact academic performance, such as study, work, exercise, sleep, family life and hobbies; describing the trend of the responses with the time devoted to each of the aforementioned aspects in such a way that the results obtained serve as a basis for post-pandemic studies.