The 2020 year has been characterized by an unprecedented epidemic that has involved all countries in the world. The Covid-19 emergency is having a strong impact on all aspects of everyday life, including services to education. The shift to emergency remote teaching in the spring of 2020 has had a strong impact on training procedures, with the consequent readjustment both in methods of teaching and in learning approaches. A natural research question concerns the impact on students’ performance, as measured by exam scores, of the face-to-face teaching suspension. In order to understand the effects of the sudden transition to emergency remote teaching, in the present work a through comparison has been carried out between the outcomes of the exams taken by all students of a medium-sized University in Italy before and after the occurrence of Covid-19 pandemic. Results may be helpful in understanding advantages and limitations of distance learning, which seems to have become a new standard in the present and near future.

Did Covid-19 restrictions in higher education affect students’ performances? Evidence from an Italian university / Dickson, Maria Michela; Espa, Giuseppe; Giuliani, Diego; Micciolo, Rocco. - In: STATISTICA APPLICATA. - ISSN 1125-1964. - 33:2(2021), pp. 123-142. [10.26398/IJAS.0033-007]

Did Covid-19 restrictions in higher education affect students’ performances? Evidence from an Italian university.

Dickson, Maria Michela
Primo
;
Espa, Giuseppe
Secondo
;
Giuliani, Diego
Penultimo
;
Micciolo, Rocco
Ultimo
2021-01-01

Abstract

The 2020 year has been characterized by an unprecedented epidemic that has involved all countries in the world. The Covid-19 emergency is having a strong impact on all aspects of everyday life, including services to education. The shift to emergency remote teaching in the spring of 2020 has had a strong impact on training procedures, with the consequent readjustment both in methods of teaching and in learning approaches. A natural research question concerns the impact on students’ performance, as measured by exam scores, of the face-to-face teaching suspension. In order to understand the effects of the sudden transition to emergency remote teaching, in the present work a through comparison has been carried out between the outcomes of the exams taken by all students of a medium-sized University in Italy before and after the occurrence of Covid-19 pandemic. Results may be helpful in understanding advantages and limitations of distance learning, which seems to have become a new standard in the present and near future.
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Dickson, Maria Michela; Espa, Giuseppe; Giuliani, Diego; Micciolo, Rocco
Did Covid-19 restrictions in higher education affect students’ performances? Evidence from an Italian university / Dickson, Maria Michela; Espa, Giuseppe; Giuliani, Diego; Micciolo, Rocco. - In: STATISTICA APPLICATA. - ISSN 1125-1964. - 33:2(2021), pp. 123-142. [10.26398/IJAS.0033-007]
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