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Did the Pandemic Affect the Quality and Level of Knowledge and Performance (Case Study)

Version 1 : Received: 1 December 2023 / Approved: 15 December 2023 / Online: 15 December 2023 (14:50:14 CET)

How to cite: Dineva, S.B.; Todorov, A.; Hristov, V.; Geordiev, K.; Atanasov, S. Did the Pandemic Affect the Quality and Level of Knowledge and Performance (Case Study). Preprints 2023, 2023121199. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1199.v1 Dineva, S.B.; Todorov, A.; Hristov, V.; Geordiev, K.; Atanasov, S. Did the Pandemic Affect the Quality and Level of Knowledge and Performance (Case Study). Preprints 2023, 2023121199. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1199.v1

Abstract

The pandemic was an enormous experience all over the world. The type of living, working and study were changed irreversibly. Facing the opportunity to establish old frames of education in universities is impossible. The adoption of new ways of teaching and assessments reveal their convenience and in the same way their weak points. In response to that stage, on 14 December 2022, the EU parliament accepted the "Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030", for the establishment of a digital transformation community (EU 2022). Trakia University had an online assessment system, quizzes for self-training, and final exams, developed in 2008 on Moodle virtual learning environment. During the pandemic, online exams and lectures were conducted using platforms like BigBlueButton in Moodle or Google Meets. The article gives the results of online exams before, during, and after the pandemic. The outcome, without doubt, displays the lowering knowledge level or performance during the social isolation due to COVID-19, and after, and the reasons are discussed. During the second year of the pandemic was mentioned also a high dropout of students. Now the situation is returning to the previous levels, before the pandemic, but the quality of education is not yet reached. The article values the grades results of session exams and has the intention to clarify the influence of the pandemic period on the excellence of high institution education.

Keywords

education; e-learning; COVID – pandemic; post-pandemic; assessments

Subject

Social Sciences, Education

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