6 April 2021
Blogpost on student attention in the online school
How do teachers experience student attentiveness in the online school? In a new blogpost, DISTRACT researchers Helene Willadsen (post doc) and Malene Hornstrup Jespersen (PhD) analyze teachers’ answers to a survey and show that teachers experience that it is harder to maintain students’ attention in the online school compared to the physical school. They also show that, on average, attentiveness of students improved from the first to the second lockdown, but only for the hard working students.
The survey results also reveal that teacher's perceive the ability of students to manage their attention differently depending on whether the students are seen as hard working or less hard working. The following figure shows this difference clearly.
