COVID-19 Impact: A Case Study at the School of Agricultural Engineering and Environment of the Universitat Politècnica de València

Gabriela Clemente, Alberto Garcia-Prats, Purificación Lisón (), Constanza Rubio, Santiago Vidal-Puig, Beatriz Ricarte, Vicente Estruch-Guitart, Loreto Fenollosa, Juan Manzano, Francisco Rovira-Más, Maria Vargas and Alberto San Bautista
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Gabriela Clemente: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y del Medio Natural (ETSIAMN), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Alberto Garcia-Prats: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y del Medio Natural (ETSIAMN), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Purificación Lisón: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y del Medio Natural (ETSIAMN), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Constanza Rubio: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y del Medio Natural (ETSIAMN), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Santiago Vidal-Puig: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y del Medio Natural (ETSIAMN), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Beatriz Ricarte: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y del Medio Natural (ETSIAMN), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Vicente Estruch-Guitart: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y del Medio Natural (ETSIAMN), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Loreto Fenollosa: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y del Medio Natural (ETSIAMN), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Juan Manzano: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y del Medio Natural (ETSIAMN), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Francisco Rovira-Más: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y del Medio Natural (ETSIAMN), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Maria Vargas: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y del Medio Natural (ETSIAMN), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Alberto San Bautista: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y del Medio Natural (ETSIAMN), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 17, 1-14

Abstract: To study the first impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the results obtained by students belonging to the School of Agricultural Engineering and Environment at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), the average of the marks corresponding to three academic years (2016–2019) was compared to those obtained in 2019–2020 for a total of four bachelor’s degrees and two semesters. Our results suggest a positive effect on the marks obtained during the activation of emergency remote teaching during the spring semester of 2019–2020 in three out of the four degrees, with these differences being significant for the whole study. Moreover, just at the end of that period, instructors and students were surveyed regarding teaching methodologies, evaluation modalities, and difficulties found throughout the process of adapting to distance teaching. Our results allow us to sensibly think about that exceptional situation in order to propose a set of counterweighting measures which could improve the implementation of distance learning in engineering colleges.

Keywords: higher education; distance learning; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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