Background of The Study
Background of The Study
Background of The Study
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a public health emergency that has altered
everyone's lives and viewpoints. In Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province in China, in December
2019 the COVID-19 was first identified. Since then, the coronavirus pandemic has spread
worldwide (Hui et al. 2020, p. 264) In the period 2019–2020. (as seen in Ilmiyah and Setiawan,
2020). In view of the safety of students, educators and other associates, the government has
closed all educational facilities around the globe to control disease spreading. According to Li
and Lalani (2020), COVID-19 has caused schools all over the world to close. About 1.2 billion
children are out of school worldwide. As a result, education has undergone significant
transformations, with the advent of e-learning, in which teaching is done remotely and through
digital platforms. Families worldwide have experienced a severe short-term disruption. Not only
have students and their parents' productivity suffered as a result of home education (Burges
and Sievertsen, 2020). Parents must spend more time monitoring their children and
encouraging them to continue their education now that teaching has shifted from physical to
virtual classrooms at a “untested and unprecedented” pace (Burges and Sievertsen, 2020).
The latest COVID-19 pandemic has caused an enormous amount of change in people's
everyday lives all over the world. Individuals' face-to-face interaction has been severely
restricted as a result of stay-at-home/safer-at-home policies. Students in college have had to
rapidly adapt to new modes of teaching, such as different types of distance learning (Munsel,
O'Malley and Mackey, 2020). Many colleges have yet to make final decisions on how they will
offer instruction in the upcoming semester. As a result of this decision, college professors were
given the unenviable task of rapidly reforming their on-ground classes so that material could be
delivered online for the rest of the spring semester. Many of these teachers had little or no
prior experience teaching remotely and struggled to find ways to satisfy all of their students'
learning needs (Lederman, 2020).
Many college students were displaced from their homes as well as learning a new
classroom world. The majority, if not all, of the dormitories and college student housing at most
colleges is closed (Dickler, 2020). Many typically aged college students returned home mid-
semester to live with their families, forcing students who had stayed in dormitories during their
college careers to find new living arrangements. Leaving the college world throughout the
semester disturbed not only students' academic lives, but also their social lives and sense of
community (Hess, 2020). Many college students had to deal with financial stress as a result of
being laid off or fired from their full or part-time work, in addition to adapting to changes in
their educational and living arrangements. COVID-19's instability in everyday life and higher
education pursuits can result in a number of negative outcomes for college students, including
increased stress and anxiety, as well as lower academic performance (Munsel, O'Malley and
Mackey, 2020).
In today’s world of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a lot of changes made
by it. In this research study, undergraduate students of Bachelor of Technical Vocational
Teacher Education at Pangasinan State University-Lingayen Campus will link to the general
adult population in terms of how they are dealing with the modality of online learning amidst
COVID-19 pandemic. The research study will focuses on the coping mechanisms of BTVTED
students of PSU-LC on the effects of online learning modality amidst COVID-19 pandemic.
The purpose of this research study is to know what are the coping mechanisms and
strategies of BTVTED students of PSU-LC on the effects of online learning modality amidst
COVID-19 pandemic. One also of the purpose of this research study is to know what does the
benefits it and to what sectors of society will be benefitted. The reasons on why this study will
be conduct are to let the BTVTED students of PSU-LC and other sectors to know the Effects of
the online learning modality and to be inform how to cope with current situation which is
coping with the pandemic. Also on how online learning affects the academic performances of
the BTVTED students and how it affects their life especially in the teaching-learning process. To
know the effects of online learning during this pandemic and how BTVTED students of PSU-LC
cope with it, the research hypothesis and problems will be prove and examine. In terms of
knowing the central problem, respondents will be asked to engage in answering survey
questionnaires for data gathering. Consequently, the researchers will prove the hypothesis and
will reach a generalization.