Saturday, June 22, 2024

Distance education challenges: insight from a nationwide teacher-centric study post- COVID-19 for informed advancements - Yousef Alshaboul1* et al, Frontiers in Education

This national teacher-centric study uses a mixed-method methodology with a random sample of teachers from public and private schools in the State of Qatar to look extensively into the problems faced during the pandemic. The study points out a number of issues, such as teachers’ deficiency in pedagogical competencies, sophisticated technological proficiency in the classroom, curriculum density, inadequate teaching strategies, challenges with determining students’ needs and obtaining an honest and realistic assessment that accurately represents the students’ level of learning, and the lack of extracurricular activities. According to the findings, the challenges were influenced by a number of factors, including year of experience, gender, age, specialization, education level, and extracurricular activities.