Impact of learning environments on students’ achievements in Calculus contents before and during COVID-19 crises

ABSTRACT

In this research, the students’ achievements in learning Calculus, before and during COVID-19 crisis, are analyzed and compared. Two groups of students, the experimental and the control one, were monitored. Both groups worked in three corresponding subgroups (traditional, hybrid and online) in the frame of different learning environment. The distance learning was applied with the students in the experimental group, in autumn 2020, during COVID-19 crisis, while the control group students learned in autumn 2019, before COVID-19 crisis. The new teaching material was prepared for the students in the experimental group. The comparison between these two groups and their subgroups is described in this paper. It turned out that the students from the experimental group, who used new teaching material for distance learning, had better results than the students in the control group.

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KEYWORDS:

• Calculus
• COVID-19
• distance learning
• functions
• limits

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Aleksandra Stevanović

Aleksandra Stevanović is an assistant at the Faculty of Information Technologies of the Metropolitan University in Belgrade, Serbia. Her area of research is mathematics education.

Radoslav Božić

Radoslav Božić is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Education, Educons University, Novi Sad, Serbia. His area of research is mathematics education.

Mirjana Štrboja

Mirjana Štrboja is professor at Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. Her research includes measure theory and mathematics education.