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Higher Education Students’ Perception and Behavior During Pandemic Reality: A Pilot Study

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Carolina Pereira,

Filomena Soares,

Celina Pinto LeãoAuthors Info & Claims

TEEM'20: Eighth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3434780.3436600

Published: 22 January 2021 Publication History

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Following the actual pandemic situation, it was sought to reach an investigation that will evidence the change of students’ behaviors in their academic life, considering their habits, daily lives and gender. Thus, it was decided to develop a short questionnaire consisting of five different topics to identify higher education students' perceptions and behaviour towards the quarantine period. The present study presents the preliminary results gathered through an online questionnaire. Students’ behaviors and perceptions regarding video conference classes, complementary activities, leisure time, psychological state and domestic tasks were analyzed in detail by gender. Some significant differences were found between female and male students. This study on students' behaviors and perceptions concerning the pandemic situation may serve as a guideline for the “new normal” ambient we are experiencing.

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Fokum DBecker BQuille KLaakso MBarendsen ESimon (2022)The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Student Participation in an Undergraduate Networking CourseProceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Vol. 110.1145/3502718.3524792(407-413)Online publication date: 7-Jul-2022
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