Educational modality and quality during the period of isolation by COVID-19, what the annual quality of life survey data tell us (2021) Modalidad y calidad educativa durante el periodo de aislamiento por COVID-19, lo que nos dicen los datos de la encuesta anual de calidad de vida (2021)

Abstract

Education is the basis of the country's development, one of the basic elements to achieve social changes and benefit the population. On the other hand, as of March 25, 2020, the Colombian government made the decision to implement mandatory preventive isolation, in the face of the global health emergency caused by COVID-19, as a consequence of this, people remained isolated, giving way to distance education. Descriptive, correlational quantitative study on the educational modality and quality during the period of isolation due to COVID-19 in 2020 in Colombia, the data collected in chapter G Education of the National Quality of Life Survey - ECV was used. 2021 of the National Administrative Department of Statistics -DANE. In 2020 during the isolation due to COVID-19, 49.7% consider that the quality of education worsened and 37.7% that it remained the same, only 9.1% considered that it improved. Although some institutions have a developed computer environment and the equipment necessary to carry out virtual classes, these are not on par with the educational quality generated by in-person classes, which is why the change in educational modalities significantly affected student learning. Mainly, the virtual modality was the one that had the greatest negative perception regarding educational quality, according to the population surveyed, which shows that the quality of education during the pandemic had a decrease.