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Influence of COVID-19 confinement on students’ performance in higher education
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This study analyzes the effects of COVID-19 confinement on the autonomous learning performance of students in higher education. Using a field experiment with 458 students from three different subjects at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), we study the differences in assessments by dividing students into two groups. The first group (control) corresponds to academic years 2017/2018 and 2018/2019. The second group (experimental) corresponds to students from 2019/2020, which is the group of students that had their face-to-face activities interrupted because of the confinement. The results show that there is a significant positive effect of the COVID-19 confinement on students' performance. This effect is also significant in activities that did not change their format when performed after the confinement. We find that this effect is significant both in subjects that increased the number of assessment activities and subjects that did not change the student workload. Additionally, an analysis of students' learning strategies before confinement shows that students did not study on a continuous basis. Based on these results, we conclude that COVID-19 confinement changed students' learning strategies to a more continuous habit, improving their efficiency. For these reasons, better scores in students' assessment are expected due to COVID-19 confinement that can be explained by an improvement in their learning performance.
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From Emergency remote teaching and students’ academic performance in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study (2021) · cites this paper as Gonzalez et al., 2020
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“As mentioned in Section 6, while counter-intuitive, this result confirms, across a larger number of courses, the findings of Gonzalez et al. (2020) in a very similar albeit smaller context.”
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“At the university level, in a single university, for 458 students in STEM faculties, learning outcomes actually improved (Gonzalez et al., 2020).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gonzalez, T., de la Rubia, M. A., Hincz, K. P., Comas-Lopez, M., Subirats, L., Fort, S., & Sacha, G. M.
- Affiliations
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (ES)
- Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (ES)
- EURECAT Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Sacha, G. M.
- Venue
- PLOS ONE
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2020-10-09
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- e0239490
- ISSN
- 1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7546684
- OpenAlex
- W3091995338
- Cited by
- 743
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 52 · 2024: 71 · 2023: 142 · 2022: 203 · 2021: 230 · 2020: 22
- FWCI
- 226.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Hispana (submittedVersion)
- Biblos-e Archivo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Funders
- Erasmus+ Program (2017-1-ES01-KA203-038266)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Education during COVID-19 pandemic
- Social Sciences › Education › Educational Outcomes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Education › E-Learning and COVID-19
- Keywords
- COVID-19 lockdown, university students, student performance, self-directed learning, learning strategies, assessment performance, student workload, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- MeSH terms
- Betacoronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Adult, Educational Measurement, Female, Humans, Male, Models, Theoretical, Pneumonia, Viral, Spain, Students, Medical, Coronavirus Infections, Education, Distance, Young Adult, Pandemics
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