The Effect of Students Performance at Higher Education Institution with Open and Distance Learning (ODL) Methods Through Formative and Summative Assessments Aggregation During Movement Control Order (MCO), COVID-19

Jamal  Othman; Rozita  Kadar; Norazah  Umar; Nurhafizah  Ahmad

The pandemic COVID-19 has changed the world to the new norms with tightened standard operating procedure (SOP) to restraint the virus transmission and infection in the community. The education ministry has instructed and advised all instructors at schools, colleges and university to change their current pedagogical method from face to face to appropriate e-learning methods as effective alternative. The main objective of this project is to examine the effectiveness of Open Distance Learning (ODL) as a new pedagogical method in teaching and learning (T&L). This paper will observe and evaluate group of undergraduate students’ performance with Open Distance Learning (ODL) approach in one semester duration during the Movement Control Order (MCO), COVID-19. The finalized formative and summative assessments aggregation results for each student was gathered from one particular programming subject for undergraduate engineering students. The aggregation results were used to compare an ODL approach which was implemented in the recent semester, with the conventional approach which was practiced in the previous semester. The data analysis shows that an ODL methods has no significance on students’ performance. Finally, the project future improvement is suggested at the last section of this paper.

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