Students' perceptions of higher education courses and instructors before and during Covid-19: the case of the Industrial Engineering and Management degree at the University of Porto

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2023

Authors

Marta Campos Ferreira (Author) FEUP; Silva, AR (Author) FEUP; Ana Maria Cunha Ribeiro dos Santos Ponces Camanho (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: U.Porto Journal of Engineering

Vol. 9

Pages: 71-96

Publisher: Universidade do Porto. Faculdade de Engenharia

Indexing

Scopus - 0 Citations

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00Z-39Q

DOI: 10.24840/2183-6493_009-004_001625

Abstract (EN): The recognition of Covid-19 as a global pandemic in March 2020 forced the closure of schools and universities around the world, raising the need to adopt emergency teaching methods. A year and a half later, the situation is still not resolved, but there is more data that allow us to understand the real impact. This study presents a comprehensive analysis of higher education students perceptions about courses and faculty during the last 5 years (2016-2021), with a special focus on the differences in perception between the pre-Covid-19 and the during Covid-19 phases. To this end, the pedagogical surveys that are answered by students from an engineering degree at a Portuguese university at the end of the first and second semester of the academic year are analyzed. The results allow us to identify two distinct moments in the Covid-19 phase: a first in which feelings of positivism and appreciation of students for the instructors and the courses they teach stand out, and a second moment in which students become more demanding and dissatisfied with the courses and with the instructors, leading to a lack of motivation and involvement of students. © 2023, Universidade do Porto - Faculdade de Engenharia. All rights reserved.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 25