1. Impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on the student's academic performance at the School of Engineering - Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá Campus.
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Esperanza Monroy-Varela, Sonia, Eduardo Gallego-Vega, Luis, Javier Amórtegui-Gil, Francisco, Marcela Vega-Herrera, Jenny, and Díaz-Morales, Hernando
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COVID-19 pandemic , *ACADEMIC achievement , *ENGINEERING schools , *ECONOMIC impact of disease , *INCOME - Abstract
This paper analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the student's academic performance in the School of Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Bogota Campus. The impact is assessed from a quantitative approach based on (i) student's grades, (ii) student's progress in their curriculum and (iii) dropped courses. In addition, results from a faculty survey (qualitative approach) are presented to expand some explanatory perspectives on the main academic changes during the pandemic. Results show a significant increase in the average numerical grade as well as in the probability of a course being dropped during the pandemic conditions. Furthermore, the student's average curriculum progress per semester grew approximately 18%. A differentiated academic impact, depending on sex and family income was observed which may be included in future post-pandemic programs. The survey reflects a new faculty's perspective on evaluation tools and methodologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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