FACTORS AFFECTING THE STUDENT’S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE UNDER DISTANCE LEARNING DURING THE COVID-19 CRISIS (Case Study of Altinbaş University in Turkey)

Abstract

The advent of the Covid-19 pandemic greatly disturbs the traditional way of getting an education. The transition from face-to-face to completely online occurs suddenly and in an unplanned way. This study analyzes those factors that affect students' online learning process and whether they play an important role in saving the student's academic year. Therefore, to achieve this objective, the seven independent variables, i.e., online learning readiness, emotional competence, information overload, communication overload, satisfaction, and perceived difficulty, were chosen, and the study's dependent variable is academic loss. The study utilizes the quantitative data of 206 students, and the software used for the analysis is SPSS software. The result shows that all the variables positively affect academic performance except for information overload, which negatively affects academic performance. The study gives valuable implications that are beneficial for higher education institutions.