Children and COVID-19 Research Library

The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak is being felt in various fields, one of which is education in all corners of the world, including Indonesia. The educational process that was previously carried out face-to-face is required to be immediately carried out online, both the administrative process and the learning process. All levels of education starting from PAUD to tertiary institutions carry out the online learning process. The thing that then becomes an obstacle in the online learning process is that there are several levels of education in Indonesia that cannot do online learning due to limited facilities in accessing the internet in their respective areas. One of them is the level of Early Childhood Education (PAUD) in Maluku. Not all PAUD in Maluku can carry out the online learning process. The use of media as a tool in the world of education is recognized by many educational practitioners to assist the learning process. And one of the learning media that can be used online and offline is learning video. This video development research using the ASSURE model was carried out by focusing on developing learning videos for children aged 5-6 years with the choice of topics focusing on the characters of empathy, honesty and discipline. This quantitative research was conducted at 4 PAUD schools in Kairatu Village, Kairatu District, West Seram Regency, namely El-Aye Joyo PAUD, Nurul Aini PAUD, Kairatu Indah PAUD, and Falmen PAUD.

The pandemic of Covid-19 brought significant changes to the education system  and  forcibly  accelerated  the  process  of  digitizing  teaching.  Students and educators  had  to  adapt  to  the  new  way  of  education,  facing  challenges  such as technical problems and a lack of technical skills and social contact. The purpose of the paper was to explore the attitudes of the university and high school educators and students towards the pandemic's impact on digitization in teaching. Data  were  collected  through  a  questionnaire  distributed  to university  and  high  school educators  and  students  in  Croatia,  Poland,  Serbia  and Germany in  the  field  of  accounting,  finance,  trade,  tourism,  and other areas of interest,  resulting  in 2,897 responses.  The  results  were  analyzed  using  descriptive statistics and non-parametric tests.

In general, adolescents are vulnerable to lifestyle changes, with implications on their physical and mental health. During COVID-19 lockdown, mental disorders emerged among the Lebanese youth, with prevalence of psychiatric symptoms related to insomnia, depression, and anxiety. The case of the adolescent population in Lebanon was alarming. Suicidal intentions appeared among Lebanese adolescents from 9th to 12th grades. Our study identifies depressive tendencies, stress and anxiety indicators in the respondents remarks. Our adolescent informants have volunteered a few suggestions for coping strategies.

Myopia is the most common refractive error among children. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected children's health in many ways. Policy changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as home quarantine and online schooling, have been proposed as causes for the increased risk of myopia progression. During strict home quarantine, children spend less time outdoors and more time using electronic devices which are important risk factors associated with myopia. This systematic review aims to assess the relationship between myopia progression and these risk factors in children. It did the literature search from PubMed, Google Scholar, and ScienceDirect. A total of 10 research papers were selected for final review using the Preferred Reporting Item for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. The research articles used had a quality of more than 70%. The quality of these articles was determined using the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) tool.

This research aimed to discover the implementation of e-leadership for school principals during the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on school performance through changes in teacher behavior. Quantitative research was used where it involved 8 public high schools with 150 respondents.

Speaking in English is one of the most important skills that students must learn in school, and it is a pertinent tool for communicating in the real world. However, pupils in rural schools often faced difficulty in conversing in the English language, as they did not have adequate opportunities or an engaging environment to practice the language, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was observed though School-Based Assessment (SBA) that pupils had limited levels of fluency, accuracy, and pronunciation. Hence, this quasi-experimental study aims to investigate the use of Toontastic 3D, a digital storytelling app, to improve pupils’ speaking skills. In this study, a pre- and post-test and a questionnaire were used as methods for data collection.

Coronavirus has spread havoc globally, resulting in the closure of all sectors including education. Therefore, to continue a child’s learning, the government started online classes from home by involving parents. This new learning method might be hectic and challenging for parents; therefore, this study aimed to assess the perception, burden, and satisfaction of parents of children attending online classes. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted in three schools of Rishikesh, Uttarakhand. A total of 220 parents of children attending online classes and studying between first and fifth standard responded voluntarily. Google Form was used to assess perception, burden, and satisfaction regarding online classes and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

With the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that most students of all grades in Vietnam were not fully vaccinated in 2021, the students had to study online for the first semester of the school year. Therefore, the students at all levels in general and the high school students particularly had a full experience of online learning. As a consequence, the research aims to investigate the experience of the high school students in e-learning in the case of Nguyen Trai High School in Ninh Thuan Province. The data was collected via online questionnaires toward the end of the first semester of the 2021-2022 academic year to find out the e-learning experience of the students at Nguyen Trai High School in Ninh Thuan Province. 174 participants responded the online questionnaires to be involved in the study.

This article analyses data from a study that explored distance learning teaching and nursery school children's experiences in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Douala, Cameroon. Following the spread of COVID-19 to Africa, the Cameroon Government placed emphasis on the impact of the pandemic on the socio-economic sector and actions to support this sector. There has been no reported research on the effects of the pandemic on the early childhood education sector and how children have experienced it. This article discusses distance learning techniques employed by teachers from a private nursery school and the views and feelings of young children whose teacher encouraged them to draw and tell stories about their experiences. Engaging in such conversations empowered and encouraged children to verbalise their COVID-19 Lockdown experiences. These conversations can help the teacher rethink and seek new ways to understand and guide children through challenging situations. In addition, the insights gained from the study can be helpful for policymakers concerned with maximising the capacity for schools and families to ensure continuous learning for all children in the event of a crisis.

Face-to-face classes were temporarily suspended and shifted to modular print learning modality due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The study aimed to determine if there significant difference and relationship between parents’ involvement in modular distance learning and the academic performance of the Grade 6 learners in a public elementary school.

This study intends to investigate the self-efficacy and perspectives of primary school parents in an online learning during COVID-19. The survey method was applied in this study with a random sampling technique for parents in West Java. Participants included in this study were 95 parents of elementary school students. The instruments applied were open and closed questionnaires.

The emergence of the Covid-19 outbreak caused the educational aspect to need adjustments in carrying out learning. Vocational schools are the objects most affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, as a result the learning process that should be based on practice must be temporarily suspended and replaced with tasks. Therefore, this study aimed to describe learning activities in Vocational High Schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as lesson plan, students’ practicum implementation and how technology are used to support learning activities. This type of research is qualitative, with the research subject being a vocational school teacher.

The COVID-19 measures have unfavourably affected the movement behaviours of youth. The aim of this study was to explore the impact of online-schooling during COVID-19 on device-measured sleep (SL), sedentary behaviour (SB), light physical activity (LPA), and moderate–vigorous physical activity (MVPA) among high school students. A total of 51 students (26 female) from Slovenia wore an activity monitor activPAL4 during the weekdays of onsite-schooling and during the weekdays of online-schooling. Data on movement behaviours were analysed using compositional data analysis. During the onsite-schooling (and online-schooling), students spent on average 432 min/day (469 min/day) in SL, 731 (755) in SB, 253 (202) in LPA, and 25 (15) in MVPA.

This study investigates the effectiveness of techno-pedagogical skills of secondary school teachers in their online teaching. A sample consists of 42 CBSE and ICSE secondary school teachers. The research adopts a descriptive survey design for collecting data using the “Techno-Pedagogical Skill Assessment Scale” developed by Sibichen (2011). Structured interviews also formed a part of data collection. The results reveal a moderately positive correlation between techno-pedagogical skills and effective online teaching. There is a significant difference between the high level and low level of techno-pedagogical skills of secondary school teachers with their effective online teaching. The positive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the techno-pedagogical skill of secondary school teachers is reported in the study.