Mandatory Home Education During the COVID-19 Lockdown in the Czech Republic: A Rapid Survey of 1st-9th Graders’ Parents

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14210/20:00115928 RIV/00216208:11320/20:10419402 RIV/00216208:11410/20:10419402

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2020.00103/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2020.00103/full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00103" target="_blank" >10.3389/feduc.2020.00103</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mandatory Home Education During the COVID-19 Lockdown in the Czech Republic: A Rapid Survey of 1st-9th Graders’ Parents

Original language description

Schools have been closed in many countries due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, but education continues online. Little is known about how parents cope with educating their children in this unprecedented situation. Here, we present the results of a rapid survey examining the experience of Czech parents of children in Grades 1–9 (Age ~ 6–15, N = 9,810) with respect to home education during the COVID-19 lockdown. This survey was distributed widely, but only online and parents participated voluntarily. Mainly families with an internet connection and interested in their children's education (i.e., the majority of families with school-aged children in the Czech Republic) took part in the survey. The results show that these families tend to cope well with the current educational situation and view the overall schoolwork transferred to homes as useful. Most children spend 2–4 h a day studying, while parents help them at least half the time. Parents mostly explain task instructions, check the work their children have done, and teach new topics. To a lesser extent, they help their children solve tasks. Teachers appear to assign tasks more often than they provide feedback and/or interact with children. Some parents face difficulties, but those are generally not severe. These include, most notably, a lack of time, issues with technologies, and inadequate teaching skills and content knowledge. Altogether, this work maps the current educational situation in a large segment of Czech families and highlights possible pitfalls to be avoided: in the Czech Republic and beyond.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Education

ISSN

2504-284X

e-ISSN

2504-284X

Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

červenec

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

103

UT code for WoS article

000682698100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85088958813