Pupil's attention - a survey from a teacher perspective

On the 1st of March, Helene Willadsen, Postdoc at SODAS, presented findings from a recent survey on how teachers perceive the attention of pupils in the current virtual classroom during the Covid-19 lockdown of society, school closure and online teaching.

Based on the answers of 261 math teachers, Willadsen concluded that while the teachers perceive it to be easier to maintain the attention of pupils in the 'regular' (i.e. offline) school, they consider the attention to improve during the second Covid-19 lockdown of society in the Winter of 2020/2021 compared to the first Covid-19 lockdown of society in the Spring of 2020. Furthermore, the teachers consider there to be a heterogeneity among the pupils, so that the attention of the hard working pupils is improving more than that of the less hard working ones.

Willadsen is part of the team of researchers behind the DISTRACT subproject Regulating Distraction.