Factors Associated with Students’ Scores in Online Learning Method in UIN Alauddin Makassar: A Cross-Sectional Study

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, since March 2020, transformation to online learning is fully implemented at all educational levels, including medical students who also adopt this new normal learning method. This study aims to determine contributing factors associated with students’ scores within online learning methods during this pandemic. This study was conducted on 146 subjects in the Medical Faculty of Alauddin Islamic State University. Students' scores are classified into 3 learning methods (offline, blended, online) and were obtained from the academic portal. We also collected demographic data including social-economic status, student’s entrance test, and student’s origin from the university academic portal. We assessed the association between demographic data and student’s scores in 3 different learning methods. Among 146 subjects, blended learning (78.55 ± 79.23) was the highest score compared to online (65.7 ± 10.2) and offline (70.25 ± 10.34) learning methods. Specific to online learning, students from district area was slightly tended to have low score compared to city students (p 0.05). The entrance test was associated with the score of blended and offline learning (p 0.02; p < 0.01) whereas online learning appears to be slightly significant (p 0.05). Socialeconomic factors have no association with students' scores in 3 different learning designs. In shifting to online learning during this pandemic, students' scores appear to be associated with student’s origin and the entrance test.