Adaptability of online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic among teachers in Qianling township rural primary schools / Sun Shuangshuang

Sun , Shuangshuang (2023) Adaptability of online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic among teachers in Qianling township rural primary schools / Sun Shuangshuang. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaya.

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Abstract

With the pandemic of the COVID-19, online teaching has temporarily replaced traditional face-to-face teaching as an important teaching method. However, it exists many issues when implementing online teaching in rural areas. It is the first time that online courses has been wide-ranging implemented in rural districts, and it remains to be seen whether primary schools teachers can adapt to online teaching. Therefore, this research aims to understand the teachers’ adaptation of online courses during the COVID-19 pandemic in primary schools focusing in rural district. The research method is a quantitative data analysis through online questionnaire surveys. It will use descriptive analysis to analyze the adaptation of teachers to online teaching. This study will choose one-way ANOVA to analyze the effects of different teaching ages or degree levels on the teachers' adaptability to online teaching. Also it will use correlation analysis to analyze the correlation between the TPACK Adaptation. This study chose 113 primary schools teachers at Qianling Township as the sample by random sampling. This study shows that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the teachers of Qianling Township primary schools were qualified to adapt to online courses and were at a moderate level. And teaching age and degree level show no effect on the teachers' adaptability to online teaching. Meanwhile, it has a positive correlation between the four dimensions of TPACK Adaptation, and each dimension influences each other. Through the findings, this research found that primary schools teachers' adaptability on online courses is useful for teachers who may in a special situation similar to the COVID-19 pandemic to improve online teaching adaptability and institutes to optimize online teaching platform. This study gives the recommendation the future researcher to expand the sample size to other rural primary schools teachers in China, add qualitative data and use the experiments in the study on different educational groups.

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