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Educational Impact on Ecuadorian University Students Due to the COVID-19 Context

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  • Author(s): Benalcázar, Marco E. (ORCID Benalcázar, Marco E. (ORCID 0000-0002-5275-7262); Barona, Lorena (ORCID Barona, Lorena (ORCID 0000-0002-5184-3759); Valdivieso, Ángel Leonardo (ORCID Valdivieso, Ángel Leonardo (ORCID 0000-0002-3502-020X); Vimos, Victor Hugo (ORCID Vimos, Victor Hugo (ORCID 0000-0002-3407-314X); Velastegui, Daniel (ORCID Velastegui, Daniel (ORCID 0000-0001-9987-4100); Santacruz, Cesar J. (ORCID Santacruz, Cesar J. (ORCID 0000-0003-1932-5035)
  • Source:
    Education Sciences. 2022 12.
  • Publication Date:
    2022
  • Document Type:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Research
    Tests/Questionnaires
  • Additional Information
    • Availability:
      MDPI AG. Klybeckstrasse 64, 4057 Basel, Switzerland. e-mail: education@mdpi.com; e-mail: indexing@mdpi.com; Web site: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/education
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      18
    • Education Level:
      Higher Education
      Postsecondary Education
    • Subject Terms:
      COVID-19; Pandemics; Context Effect; College Students; Student Characteristics; Correlation; Online Courses; Technology Integration; Access to Computers; Internet; Family Income; Psychological Patterns; Teacher Effectiveness; Age Differences; Public Colleges; Private Colleges; Foreign Countries
    • Subject Terms:
      Ecuador
    • ISSN:
      2227-7102
    • Abstract:
      The mobility restrictions imposed in different countries due to the pandemic of Sars-CoV2 has hugely impacted different areas in the world. In this work, impacts on the social areas of Ecuadorian university students such as education, economy, physical and mental health, and access to telecommunications are analyzed. For this work, in a snapshot between May to September 2020, 1841 students from 6 public and 5 private universities from Ecuador were surveyed through 47 questions, which were grouped into 7 mutually exclusive dimensions. The Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) was used to analyze the correlations between the responses of the questions and the relations between dimensions. Dimensional relations were used to analyze how students perceive online classes, teachers' preparation, mood, and the impact on their learning process due to their decreasing family income. Among the most important results, we found that 63.78% of students want to return to on-site classes regardless of their conditions of Internet connection and their available learning tools (computers, tablets, or cellphones). The results also show that family income has influenced how students access the Internet, Internet connection, technological resources for online learning, and mood. Regarding the relations between variables, we found that older students and students from higher semesters think that online classes are better than face-to-face classes and want to continue in online education.
    • Abstract:
      As Provided
    • Publication Date:
      2022
    • Accession Number:
      EJ1324807