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Influence of COVID-19 confinement on students' performance in higher education
This study analyzes the effects of COVID-19 confinement on the autonomous learning performance of students in higher education. Using a field experiment with 458 students from three different subjects at Universidad AutĂłnoma de Madrid (Spain), we study the differences in assessments by dividing students into two groups. The first group (control) corresponds to academic years 2017/2018 and 2018/2019. The second group (experimental) corresponds to students from 2019/2020, which is the group of students that had their face-to-face activities interrupted because of the confinement. The results show that there is a significant positive effect of the COVID-19 confinement on students' performance. This effect is also significant in activities that did not change their format when performed after the confinement. We find that this effect is significant both in subjects that increased the number of assessment activities and subjects that did not change the student workload. Additionally, an analysis of students' learning strategies before confinement shows that students did not study on a continuous basis. Based on these results, we conclude that COVID-19 confinement changed students' learning strategies to a more continuous habit, improving their efficiency. For these reasons, better scores in students' assessment are expected due to COVID-19 confinement that can be explained by an improvement in their learning performanceThis research was funded by ADeAPTIVE
(Advanced Design of e-Learning Applications
Personalizing Teaching to Improve Virtual
Education) project with the support of the Erasmus
+ programme of the European Union (grant
number 2017-1-ES01-KA203-038266). This study
was also funded by ACCIOÂŽ, Spain (Pla dâActuacioÂŽ
de Centres TecnolĂČgics 2019) under the project
Augmented Workplace. This study was also funded
by the Fondo Supera COVID-19 (Project:
Development of tools for the assessment in higher
education in the COVID-19 confinemen