20.500.12556/DKUM-89425 Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected mathematics achievement? a case study of university students in social sciences This study examines the effects of COVID-19-related measures on the mathematics achievement of university students in social sciences in Slovenia. Our particular concern was to compare two student populations (pre-pandemic and pandemic) in terms of factors affecting student performance in mathematics courses. Data were collected over nine consecutive academic years (from 2013–2014 to 2020–2021) and analyzed using two-stage structural equation modelling (SEM). The analyses confirmed that the conceptual model developed before the pandemic was applicable during the pandemic period. For both populations (pre-pandemic and pandemic), mathematics confidence, perceived level of math anxiety, background knowledge from secondary school, and self-engagement in mathematics courses at university were confirmed as factors influencing mathematics achievement. Moreover, both populations perceived the effects of the factors in the same way, and the magnitude of the effects is comparable. The rather high values of determination coefficient for mathematics achievement (greater than 0.66 for both student populations) indicate that the variables “Perceived Level of Math Anxiety” and “Self-Engagement in Mathematics Course at University” together explain a significant proportion of the total variance before and during the pandemic. Consequently, the results of our case study indicated that pandemic measures did not have a significant impact on our students’ mathematics achievement. Although a more in-depth study of a broader sample of academic courses would be needed to confirm our findings, our experience indicates that mathematics courses at the tertiary level of education can be successfully delivered online. COVID-19 mathematics achievement university students social sciences pre-pandemic population pandemic population comparison multi-group structural equation modeling (MG-SEM) pandemija matematični dosežki študentje družbene vede populacije primerjava modeliranje strukturnih enačb true false true MDPI Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2024-07-09 11:55:23 2024-07-09 12:06:25 2024-07-10 04:36:42 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2022 0 0 Str. 1-23 Št. 13, št. članka 2314 Letn. 10 2022 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2022-04-21 2022-06-29 2022-07-01 378 115133699 10.3390/math10132314 2227-7390 Znidarsic-2022-Has_the_COVID-19_Pandemic_Affec.pdf Znidarsic-2022-Has_the_COVID-19_Pandemic_Affec.pdf 1 1DD875BDB36900925587B54B4653AD17 c307f41208a124a22ef941d542c14ddeaa099561bc48b18a39413678dcf43dcd a31a5536-3dda-11ef-9361-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=181283 https://doi.org/10.3390/math10132314 0 602f72ac-3dd9-11ef-9361-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=181280 Fakulteta za organizacijske vede Fakulteta za naravoslovje in matematiko 0 0 0