Impact of COVID-19 on student performance in a physics laboratory course

Abstract

This study examines the change in students' performance in a physics laboratory course between distance education and face-to-face education periods before, during, and after the pandemic. It fills a gap in the literature by conducting an in-depth examination of how a transition to distance education affected a laboratory course students' performance using statistical methods.The results of our study are significant. They show that, in general, students performed better after the pandemic compared to the online period. Students with a CGPA below 2.50 performed at a lower level in the online period compared to the pre-pandemic period, while their CGPAs increased significantly.

Keywords

• Covid-19
• Online teaching
• Face-to-face classes
• Laboratory course
• Academic performance