A Preliminary Study on The Factors Affecting Academic Performance of Foundation Students During Online Learning
Abstract
Switching from conventional learning to online learning during COVID-19 pandemic is believed to affect students’ academic performance. Therefore, the main objective of this research was to analyze the potential factors affecting students’ academic performance during online learning. A sample of 91 foundation students was selected and used for the study using purposive sampling. Four factors were discussed which are lecturer, technology, student and social interaction factor. The data collected using online survey instrument was processed and analyzed using SPSS statistical package. The descriptive findings determined that student factor has significance influence on students’ academic performance during online learning. Thus, it can be concluded that students were not ready for an online learning. However, lecturer factor gives a positive impact to the academic performance. The outcome of this research shows that online learning is challenging for the students as they are getting used to conventional learning. However, lecturers are capable to tackle the challenges in the migration of offline to online learning.
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