According to children's/youth's and caregivers' perspectives, there is clear evidence for a negative effect of COVID-19 on the educational performance of children with SEND in the areas of (1) speech and language development (2) home learning (3) academic achievement (4) learning performance...
“Everyone around me is suddenly turning to online education due to COVID-19, and it’s been an adjustment for a lot of people. As for me, I always saw it as the future of learning, and so I was prepared for what’s happening now – COVID-19 hasn’t impacted my Chinese learning...
The COVID-19 pandemic, which emerged in December 2019, caused a public health crisis worldwide. On July 28, 2022, the number of confirmed cases was over 571 million, and the death toll was over 6.3 million worldwide1; these figures continue to rise steadily every day. The situation was ...
Methods This work has been performed within the ECIEN-2020 study (from the Spanish "Efecto de COVID-19 en Ingresos por Enfermedades NO-COVID" or "Effect of COVID-19 on Admissions for non-COVID-19 Diseases"). This is an observational, cross-sectional analytical study, performed in the ...
This chapter provides a critical look at what COVID-19 meant for the education sector in South Africa. It documents the path of the pandemic in the education space to understand its effects and the short-term responses of the education system. It begins
To identify factors affecting the mental and physical health of first-year medical students during the period of rapid SARS-COV-2 spread in the COVID-19 pandemic to develop effective strategies for managing student well-being and education quality during global pandemics. Methods 656 first-year stu...
An alarming 68% of high school seniors said their family had been directly impacted by COVID-19; financially or otherwise. For those college-bound seniors whose family's financial situation was affected, adequate communication with counselors was shown to have a positive, mitigating effect on the...
Currently, school closures in over a dozen countries due to the COVID-19 outbreak have disrupted the education of at least 290.5 million students worldwide, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
However, if this funding can mitigate the impact of unfinished learning, it could prevent much larger losses to the US economy. Given that this generation of students will likely spend 35 to 40 years in the workforce, the cumulative impact of COVID-19 unfinished learning ov...
COVID-19’s disrupting effect on education Despite technological and philosophical advances in education during the past 50 years, the classroom of today looks remarkably like the classroom of decades ago. Instead of card catalogs and thick encyclopedias, students can turn to the Internet and search...