THE IMPACTS OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF BS HONOUR STUDENTS AT QUAID-I-AZAM UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD

Abstract

Corona virus called COVID-19 has comes from the Wuhan city of China in November 2019 and inside two months it spreads across (200) nations, sent billions of individuals into lockdown, self-quarantine, and shut down of all educational institutions and non-economic exercises. Numerous nations across the world have moved their physical classes to the online, where students join in lectures, presenting their assignments and research work through online sources. The Educational Productivity theory was applied in the research which expressed that student could beat their educational or academic issues and convert them into promising circumstances through their endeavors. The quantitative research strategy was picked, and universe of the study was Quaid-e-Azam University. The basic random sampling strategies were taken on to secure data from respondents directly and through online sources. The close-end questionnaires were utilized as data collection tool. The statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) adaptation 22.0 was utilized the data in numeric structures. The results where most of the respondents were agreed and strongly agreed that students are attend online classes, where they are disturbed due to absence of fast internet service, absence of appropriate communication with teachers and other classmates, their study plan has been suffered, semester plan is influenced, dealing with issue in access of online materials, for example, research papers, journals and reference books. Furthermore, students have agreed that teachers are not assessing student’s work fairly and, don't permit students to ask questions. Besides, students, who are doing their research work are additionally suffered because of absence of proper interaction with the supervisor or on the other hand the access to quality materials and as respondents. Moreover, students were not focused on studies because of lockdown. The lockdown has negatively affected the mental state of students, where they are not focusing on the studies. Further, the results of inferential measurements likewise showed that the lockdown and Coronavirus have negatively affected on the activities of students at Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad Pakistan. Besides, the University makes approaches which work with students learning process. Keywords: COVID-19, Online Classes, Internet Issue