Perception of students of applied social sciences courses regarding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic during their training

Abstract

Purpose: Identify the perception of students of Applied Social Sciences courses regarding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic during their training the impacts at universities in the state of Paraná.

Methodology: Data collection took place through an online questionnaire and had the participation of 115 students from two universities in Paraná. The questionnaire had open and closed questions and was divided into sections with demographic information, and the student's perception of the impact of the pandemic, for the analysis of closed questions, descriptive statistics was used, for open questions, content analysis was used.

Results: As for remote teaching, approximately 72% of respondents reported difficulties in concentrating during classes, 80% of students thought about dropping out of the course during the pandemic and about 81% of respondents said that their studies were negatively affected by the pandemic, some factors pointed out by the students were the accumulation of academic activities, the unpreparedness of these students for self-study and the lack of an adequate environment for learning.

Contributions of the Study: The work contributed to the academic society by identifying the negative perception that students had during remote teaching, to the literature on the impacts of the pandemic on higher education, because according to the students' perception, the pandemic had negative impacts on learning in their respective courses, in addition, the result indicates that students of Applied Social Sciences, in most of them do not have a very high family income and thus structural problems have arisen to follow classes in remote teaching, in this sense, public bodies need to pay attention to this type of need and adapt teaching to the conditions of these students.