A Comparison of Students’ Learning Behaviors and Performance Among Pre, During and Post COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed humans’ lifestyle, especially in the education sector. Educators and learners have to shift from traditional face-to-face learning to online or e-learning. Several novel online learning technologies were promoted during pandemic, and the corresponding advantages and disadvantages were analyzed and pointed out by existing research. However, there is limited research which compare students’ learning behaviors or performance among pre, during and post pandemic periods. In this paper, we performed a quantitative analysis and comparison to reveal the patterns on students’ learning behaviors or performance during different pandemic periods in information technology educations. More specifically, students’ behaviors on assignment submissions and their final grades were extracted and analyzed for the purpose of quantitative comparison. Our experimental results discover significant impacts on students’ learning by the COVID-19 pandemic in information technology educations, which may further benefit different stakeholders in the educational community in their future development.