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Current Research in Psychology and Behavioral Science
[ ISSN : 2833-0986 ]


COVID-19 Pandemic, Impact on Preschoolers at our Lady of Mercy Integral Training Center

Research Article
Volume 4 - Issue 6 | Article DOI : 10.54026/CRPBS/10106


Janet Eugenia Aguilar Rojas1 , Hilma Ramos1 , Gloria De Gracia1 , Susana Vásquez1 and Jay Molino2

1Faculty of Special Education and Pedagogy, Universidad Especializada de las Américas (UDELAS), Corregimiento de Ancón, Albrook, Paseo de La Iguana 0843-014, República de Panamá, Panama
2Faculty of Biosciences and Public Health, Universidad Especializada de las Américas (UDELAS), Panama

Corresponding Authors

Jay Molino, Faculty of Biosciences and Public Health, Universidad Especializada de las Américas (UDELAS), Albrook, Panama

Keywords

Teaching-learning; Virtual teaching; Preschool education; COVID-19 pandemic; Academic performance; Parental involvement

Received : September 21, 2023
Published : October 11, 2023

Abstract

In this exploratory, non-experimental study, the virtual teaching modality is examined in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, trying to infer its impact on Nuestra Señora de la Merced Comprehensive Training Center preschool students. This research has been developed under a methodology with a quantitative approach. The instruments used were the data of an evaluation format for measurement of use and performance (quantitative and qualitative aspects) concerning the contents taught during 2019 and 2021. The results of the tests applied to preschool students at the end of each period (2019 and 2021), constituted the element of statistical evaluation through which we tried to determine comparatively the presumed effects that the pandemic could have had on the teaching-learning process. The population was made up of 5-year-old children and preschool students. A survey was applied to parents regarding the teaching received by their attendees in pandemic conditions. Both the analysis of the statistical results of the performance measurements made to the students, as well as the information obtained from the survey, yielded quantitative results that suggest that preschool students, in pandemic conditions and non-contact classes were affected in their performance and that the accompaniment of the parents was decisive in the performance of the students of the year 2021.