Students’ Motivation to Learn During the Pandemic

Abstract

The pandemic situation in the last year has produced many changes in the academic space, both in terms of the interaction between human factors involved in education and the way and means of teaching, learning and assessment used in the virtual classes. These changes have visibly affected students and teachers’ well-being, sometimes with negative consequences on their motivation for learning. In this article, we aim to address the motivation of high-school students in pandemic and online school. We will present both factors that influence the motivation for high school students’ learning and the effects that we have found on school progress and may decrease learning and students’ performance.