Vol. 11, Special Issue 11 (2022)

Author(s):
Marina Machiya Deori and Dr. Sampreety Gogoi

Abstract:
The outbreak of COVID-19 had a diverse impact on educational sector. Traditional classrooms were replaced by online classrooms in order to stop the virus from spreading, which had a significant impact on the close interaction between teachers and students and caused a paradigm change in the teaching-learning process. For students, the disparity is more evident, owing to the diverse socio-economic backgrounds and geographical locations that they come from. With this background, the present study was an attempt to know the perception of school students of Tinsukia, Assam, India, about the new method of learning (online learning), during the calendar year 2021-2022. By using stratified multistage sampling procedure, sample of 384 students from eight schools of the Tinsukia Urban and Hapjan blocks of Tinsukia district were drawn randomly from classes 1-10, both from government and private schools. A self-constructed questionnaire was prepared to elicit information from students regarding their perception on online school. By performing linear regression analysis, it was found that the contributing predictors of students’ perception towards online school were interaction and participation, teacher conducting classes, perceived usefulness, academic performance and mode of class. It was found that although students found online classes useful for its flexibility and convenience but majority of the students preferred offline class over online class.