An Extensive Questionnaire about Metacognition during Emergency Remote Teaching Involving More Than 3000 Engineering Students

Roberto Mazzola (), Matteo Bozzi, Italo Testa, Susanna Sancassani and Maurizio Zani
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Roberto Mazzola: Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
Matteo Bozzi: Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
Italo Testa: Department of Physics “E. Pancini”, University Federico II, 80138 Naples, Italy
Susanna Sancassani: METID Center, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
Maurizio Zani: Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 3, 1-11

Abstract: By 11 March 2020, the phrase “COVID-19” had officially entered everyday life across most of the word. Each level of education suddenly faced new changes and new challenges. Emergency remote teaching became widespread, and new methodologies to deliver classes and courses were adopted by educational institutions. In this paper, we focus on the impact of the remote learning experience of engineering students enrolled at the Politecnico di Milano. The subjects were recruited from all engineering courses from the first to the fifth year and were asked to complete a multidimensional survey. The survey featured 66 items regarding the participants’ perceptions of the challenges of emergency remote teaching compared with pre-COVID-19 in-person teaching. The questionnaire addressed six dimensions: the organization of emergency remote teaching, subjective well-being, metacognition, self-efficacy, identity, and socio-demographic information. In this paper, we describe the entire survey and discuss a preliminary analysis. Using Cronbach’s alpha test, a confirmatory factor analysis, and the t -test, we performed a more in-depth analysis concerning the outcomes of metacognition and self-efficacy. The data analysis suggested a small, unexpected change in the metacognition strategies. The students, in some regards, improved their learning strategies. Some other answers underlined their appreciation of the courses’ organization and the lack of relationships with their peers and teachers.

Keywords: emergency remote teaching; COVID-19; metacognition; engineering; self-efficacy; higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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