Effect of COVID-19 on the Performance of Grade 12 Students: Implications for STEM Education

By E. Sintema. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020

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With all learning institutions pre-maturely closed on 20 March 2020 and all citizens advised to self-isolate in a bid to control the spread of COVID-19, it was hypothesized that COVID-19 would negatively impact on the performance of students in the 2020 Grade 12 national examinations vis-a-vis mathematics, science and design and technology subjects An observed steady increase in the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases and the low levels of technology use in secondary schools in Zambia due to limited technology resources signifies a very difficult period in a young country which has just rolled out a nation-wide implementation of STEM education, This study collected data from three teachers at a public secondary school in Chipata District of Eastern Province in the Republic of Zambia The Head of Department for Mathematics, the Head of Natural Sciences Department and one science teacher were interviewed Semi-structured interviews via mobile phone were used to collect views of what these specialists thought would be the COVID-19 effects on the general performance of students in their subject areas Results of this study revealed that there is likely to be a drop in the pass percentage of secondary school students in this year's national examinations if the COVID-19 epidemic is not contained in the shortest possible time considering that the school academic calendar was abruptly disturbed by the early untimely closure of all schools in the country (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Modeling and Simulation

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A Literature Review on Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Teaching and Learning (2021, background): “Lockdown and staying home strategies have been put in place as the needed action to flatten the curve and control the transmission of the disease (Sintema, 2020).”
MOTIVASI BELAJAR MAHASISWA PADA PEMBELAJARAN DARING SELAMA PANDEMIK COVID-19 (2020, neutral): “…2020), masa darurat pandemik ini mengharuskan sistem pembelajaran diganti dengan pembelajaran daring agar proses pembelajaran tetap berlangsung (Sintema, 2020), hal ini jelas mengubah pola pembelajaran yang mengharuskan guru dan pengembang pendidikan untuk menyediakan bahan pembelajaran dan…”
The Impact of Environmental Factors on Academic Performance of University Students Taking Online Classes during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mexico (2020, background): “Additionally, Sintema [36] studied the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic performance on students of secondary schools in Zambia.”
Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Philippine Context (2020, background): “However, very meager research is done in relation to the field of education on how COVID-19 or even SARS affected the educational system (Bao, 2020; Sintema, 2020; Yan, 2020). stakeholders with an opportunity to continue learning while preventing the spread of the virus.”
Student’s Responses on Learning in the Early COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, background): “The possible learning model, along with the state of the pandemic COVID-19, is learning through the network systems, such as e-learning prepared by universities via campus’ websites or using online applications (Sintema, 2020).”