Impact of the pandemic on learning: reflections from educational psychology
- Virgelina Castellanos-Páez
, - Rocío Abello-Correa,
- Mario Fernando Gutiérrez-Romero,
- Solanlly Ochoa-Angrino,
- Tatiana Rojas-Ospina ,
- Hernando Taborda-Osorio
Abstract
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments regulated mandatory preventive isolation as a measure to minimize the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This article aims to reflect on the consequences of this type of measures on the development and learning of students at different educational levels, in order to propose possible educational adaptations required for the return of the educational community to schools. The reflection was fed by two sources: literature review on the subject and advances in psychoeducational research by some of the authors of this text. The consequences identified are essentially negative for cognitive development, executive functions, mathematics performance, and mental health. As aggravating factors, the low social and cultural capital of families, limitations in the access and use of digital tools, deficient teacher training in the use of technologies for pedagogical purposes, and difficulties of self-regulation in students were identified.
Keywords
development, learning, education, school performance, pandemic, online learning
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