Retrospective Analysis of the Performance of Students from a Public University in Pre-COVID Time due to the Use of Information and Communication Technologies

The present research was carried out in order to determine the influence that the use of information and communication technologies has on the academic performance of students in the subject Image Theory of the Professional Academic School of Communication Sciences of the UNICA School of Communication Sciences, Tourism and Archeology during 2019. The research is of an applied or technological type of explanatory level and a non- equivalent control group design that established the causal relationship between the study variables, in a sample of 54 students. To collect the information, the verification test was applied, which consisted of the pre-test and post-test tests, the control card and the research card were also used. Between the variables use of tics and academic performance, it was determined that there is a highly significant dependency relationship according to the statistical test applied in the contrasting of the hypotheses between the experimental group.