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Online and Distance Education

2021

Arkansas Tech University

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Persistence And Academic Performance Of Medical Students In Online Learning Environment During The Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown, Mohsin M. Syed, Noor Akhter, Mohamed Ibrahim, Laura C. Stanley Jan 2021

Persistence And Academic Performance Of Medical Students In Online Learning Environment During The Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown, Mohsin M. Syed, Noor Akhter, Mohamed Ibrahim, Laura C. Stanley

Faculty Publications - Curriculum & Instruction

Government response to the COVID 19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 came as a wave of physical closures requiring sudden change in the method of instruction from face-to-face to a completely online. Assessment of students adaptation to this change during emergency lockdown is the focus of this study. We used a One-way ANOVA to compare pandemic and pre-pandemic Performance of First Year medical students at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in the brain and behavior module. Students’ test scores related to perception of persistence levels was studied using correlation analysis. In addition, a regression analysis was performed …