Online Class Effectiveness and its Impact on Academic Performance of School Students at Chennai Region

ABSTRACT

The Covid-19 pandemic affects all areas of line including education institutions. The global lockdown resulted in a stressful situation for educational institutions which transformed the traditional leaning to online learning. Various innovative ICT tools have been applied by educational institutions in order to enhance the interest and ability of students in learning through online classes. Different schools used different application software to take online classes without any interruption. This study aims to find out the online class effectiveness and its impact on school students' academic performance in Chennai region. The study was descriptive and analytical in nature. Both primary and secondary data was collected. The primary data was collected by using structured questionnaire consisting of categorical, ratio and Likert scaled questions. The population of the study consists of parents of those students attending online classes at Chennai region. The sample size of the study was 100 respondents which were collected by using convenient ampling technique. These condary data was collected from the sources namely books, journals, articles, thesis, newspapers and magazines. The statistical tools used to analyze the data are percentage analysis, descriptive statistics, ANOVA and Linear regression analysis. The results of the study revealed that there exists a significant difference among school students' demographic profile and their academic performance. It is also found that there is a significant impact of effectiveness of online class on academic performance of students.