View of Parents’ Perception And Support Towards School Education Through Online Learning During Covid – 19

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Parents’ Perception And Support Towards School Education Through Online Learning

During Covid – 19

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_{Dr.D.Sumathi,}

_{Dr.V.Anuraadha}

1Assistant Professor, PG & Research Department of Commerce Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College

2Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College

Article History: Received: 10 January 2021; Revised: 12 February 2021; Accepted: 27 March 2021; Published

online: 28 April 2021

Abstract: The COVID -19 pandemic which was never experienced by the people of India before. It has impacted on

every aspect of individual life and economy. One of the factors which were badly affected is the Education of children. Learning through physical presence in the classroom has completely stopped at one point of time. Teaching and Learning should not be stopped for any student, so the school education switched to online teaching/learning. Before pandemic the necessity of parents' support for students' learning process are considered to some extent. In this study the researcher identifies the parents' perception and support to students in online learning as a problem area. Data was collected through a questionnaire in order to analyse the problem area of the study. Study says that the parents’ competency plays a major role in supporting the children's education. Parents’ overall perception is traditional learning is most preferable for school education.

Keywords: COVID, Online learning, Parents’ perception, parents’ competency, traditional learning.

1. Introduction

The COVID -19 pandemic which was never experienced by the people of India before. It has impacted on every aspect of individual life and economy. People in India were not prepared for such a pandemic and followed by curfew (lock down) throughout the country. Its impact created a crisis, was not only in financial aspects, even also the education pattern in the country.

Education system in India depends on the traditional method of teaching. And they believed that classroom teaching is more effective than any other mode. Even though the online courses are appreciated, the ultimate belief was to learn in the classroom - chalk & board. COVID - 19 pandemic forced the education pattern from classroom learning to online learning (E-Learning).

1.

Shelina et al. (2020) has designed her study to explore the experiences of parents about home learning. Data

was collected by using purposive sampling technique through Google Docs - open-ended questions. Authors have said that home learning has emerged as a substitute for the traditional schooling methods, which used to be effective to the students/children. The researcher suggested that the curriculum frame should include physical and psychosocial components rather than academic goals. This situation can be used as an opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of different learning approaches

Sonia et.al (2020) aimed to examine the impact of COVID -19 on academic motivation of the students of

Italian and portuguese. The author also investigated the role of extracurricular activities among the students during the lock-down period. The author has used various statistical tools to analyse the data where it was found that the decrease in students’ participation in extracurricular activities was associated with changes in academic motivation.

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Online education is defined as, “Online education is electronically supported learning that relies on the internet for teacher or student interaction and the distribution of class materials”. Online education paves way for students to learn by staying at home or staying away from the classroom.

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Parents have been known to be a child's first teacher from the moment the child is born. As a parent plays many roles in bringing up the child like guiding, directing, teaching etc., etc. Even Though the roles are more for parents, they cannot take the complete role of teaching, so they can only support the students when learning. In this study, an attempt has been taken to analyse the role of parents in supporting the children's online education and also to understand the parents perception towards online education of their wards.

3.

The study aimed to know the parent’s perception and their support towards the children Online education. In order to identify the parents' perception and the ways of their support towards children in online learning the following objectives were framed.

1. To study the parents’ perception towards children education

2. To understand the difficulties faced by the parents’ in children online education 3. To analyze the parents support towards children academic performance

4. Research Methodology

The data was collected primary data and also from secondary data. Secondary data was used to collect the review from various journals and articles for the study. The primary data was collected by circulating a questionnaire through Google forms. Convenience sampling method was used in collection of data. The sample size was limited to 66 respondents. The questionnaire was circulated among the respondents in Chennai.

5. Analysis and interpretation

5.1 In order to understand the parents’ perception towards children's education, the collected data was analysed. It is interpreted with help of bar diagram

Chart No.1

The perception of parents on students online learning is depicted in the bar diagram, most of the parents agrees that students were able to understand the subject when it is taught through online class. And at the same time they opined that the syllabus cut announced by the government (on Samacheer Kalvi) is also appreciable.

And at the same parents accepted that student’s time spent on learning is less.

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Friedmen test for significant difference among mean rank towards difficulties faced by the Parent in children's online education.

Null Hypothesis: There is no significant difference among mean rank towards difficulties faced by the Parent in children online education.

Table No.;1

Difficulties faced by the Parents in Children online education Mean Rank

Chi – Square value`

P Value

Technological competence of the parents 3.67 15.73 0.003

Health issue because spending more time in front of the computers

3.36

Un control over the pop-ups 3.06

Providing appropriate gadgets for E-learning 2.55

Monitoring the wards when they are browsing 2.36

Source: Computed Data

NOTE: denotes significant at 5 % level

Since P Value is less than 0.05, the null hypothesis is rejected at 1% level of significance, hence concluded that there is significant difference among mean ranks towards difficulties faced by the Parent in children's online education in the study area.

Based on mean rank, Technological competence of the parents (3.67) was the first difficulty faced by the Parents in children’s online education and the least difficulty was monitoring the students when they were attending online class.

5.3 t test for Specified Value (Average =3) of Statements on of parents towards online education

Null Hypothesis: Opinion regarding Statements on perceptions of parents towards online education is not equal to Average Level

TableNo.;2

Statement on Perception of Parents towards Online Education Mean SD t Value

P Value

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Time Spent 3.58 1.542 2.145 .040*

Level of Subject understanding 4.09 .631 9.937 .001**

Lack of self – regulation towards studies 3.76 .936 4.647 .001**

Teachers lack in technological knowledge 3.61 .998 3.488 .001**

Syllabus cut is appreciable 4.39 .899 8.904 .001**

Source: Computed Data

NOTE: ** denotes significant at 1 % Level * denotes significant at 5% level

Since P Value is less than 0.01, the null hypothesis is rejected at 1% level of significance with regard to all the statements on Parents Perceptions on Online education. Hence the opinion regarding all the statements on Perceptions of respondents is above the average level (average level = 3). Based on mean score it is clear those parents have a positive perception towards online education and they are satisfied with the same.

6. Suggestions

The data collected from the respondents which was analysed and interpreted made the author to make the following suggestion. Teachers has to update themselves in order to handle the online class in a better way many new pedagogy is prevailing in the internet which can be learnt by the online learning. Parents expect that teachers can give more details and method of completing the students assignment or project work by students’ itself rather than disturbing the parents.

7. Conclusion

Parents education back ground also matters when the need for supporting the students during online education. Parents can make sure that the wards are present throughout the class without getting distracted from the online class. In Tamilnadu where more affluent parents may have more advantages than the poorer with less educated parent who seeks the government support in providing the electronic gadgets for online learning. The parents support the children in online education in spite of various difficulties faced by them. But many parents are expecting the day eagerly where the students physical presence in the classroom with conventional teaching.

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