Impact of Learning in the COVID-19 Era on Academic Outcomes of Undergraduate Psychology Students

Juan Luis Martín Ayala, Sergio Castaño Castaño, Alba Hernández Santana, Mariacarla Martí González and Julién Brito Ballester
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Juan Luis Martín Ayala: Faculty of Health Sciences, European University of the Atlantic, 39011 Santander, Spain
Sergio Castaño Castaño: Faculty of Health Sciences, European University of the Atlantic, 39011 Santander, Spain
Alba Hernández Santana: Faculty of Health Sciences, European University of the Atlantic, 39011 Santander, Spain
Mariacarla Martí González: Faculty of Health Sciences, European University of the Atlantic, 39011 Santander, Spain
Julién Brito Ballester: Faculty of Health Sciences, European University of the Atlantic, 39011 Santander, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 16, 1-17

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic, and the containment measures adopted by the different governments, led to a boom in online education as a necessary response to the crisis posed against the education system worldwide. This study compares the academic performance of students between face-to-face and online modalities in relation to the exceptional situation between the months of March and June 2020. The academic performance in both modalities of a series of subjects taught in the Psychology Degree at the European University of the Atlantic (Santander, Spain) was taken into account. The results show that student performance during the final exam in the online modality is significantly lower than in the face-to-face modality. However, grades from the continuous evaluation activities are significantly higher online, which somehow compensates the overall grade of the course, with no significant difference in the online mode with respect to the face-to-face mode, even though overall performance is higher in the latter. The conditioning factors and explanatory arguments for these results are also discussed.

Keywords: academic performance; online mode; face-to-face mode; COVID-19; academic results analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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