“My Uni Experience Wasn’t Completely Ruined”: The Impacts of COVID-19 on the First-Year Experience

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dc.citation.issue3
dc.citation.volume12
dc.contributor.authorMcKay L
dc.contributor.authorO’bryan S
dc.contributor.authorKahu ER
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-12T23:17:21Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-20T01:38:03Z
dc.date.available2023-11-12T23:17:21Z
dc.date.available2023-11-20T01:38:03Z
dc.date.issued2021-11
dc.description.abstractThe first year at university is always challenging, but particularly in 2020 when COVID-19 triggered lockdowns and a rapid shift to online learning. This mixed methods study tracked the wellbeing and engagement of 60 new students in an undergraduate teacher education program at an Australian university throughout the first trimester of 2020. Follow-up focus groups with 14 students used interview and photo elicitation to explore how COVID-19 influenced wellbeing and engagement. Quantitative results demonstrate both student wellbeing and student engagement dipped strongly at the start of lockdown but recovered towards the end of the trimester. Focus group findings illustrate the diversity of experience in terms of student access to time and space to study, their ability to sustain relationships online, and the cumulative stress of COVID-19. The findings lead to recommendations for supporting this cohort and for future research.
dc.format.pagination1-13
dc.identifier.citationMcKay L, O’bryan S, Kahu ER. (2021). “My Uni Experience Wasn’t Completely Ruined”: The Impacts of COVID-19 on the First-Year Experience. Student Success. 12. 3. (pp. 1-13).
dc.identifier.doi10.5204/ssj.1762
dc.identifier.eissn2205-0795
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/69152
dc.publisherQueensland University of Technology
dc.relation.isPartOfStudent Success
dc.rights(c) The author/s CC BY 4.0en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.title“My Uni Experience Wasn’t Completely Ruined”: The Impacts of COVID-19 on the First-Year Experience
dc.typeJournal article
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