To examine the challenges of students while ‘studying from home’ amid covid-19 pandemic: An Exploratory Factor Analysis

Abstract

The pandemic of covid-19 has created a gloomy pall across the world. All events across the world are either cancelled or postponed, most of the countries are under lock down, the cases of Covid-19 are rising day by day. School, colleges and universities are completely closed in most of the countries due to positive cases of covid-19, rising day by day. Not only businessman, legal professional, medical professional, politician, teachers, organizational employees etc, are facing problems for the smooth working of their profession but also students are facing a big challenge while studying from home. The emergence of communication technology in the form of smart phone and other electronic gazettes are helping the students to pacify their challenges. Keeping the problem or challenges, students are facing and its impact on their studies while studying from home, the research study is conducted to identify the challenging factors of students while ‘studying from home’ during complete close of schools, colleges and universities due to lock down. So the main objective of my research is to identify various challenging factors of students while studying from home’ amid covid-19 pandemic. A data was collected by distributing self designed questionnaire with 250 students of colleges and universities of  Uttarakhand. A Google-form was prepared to collect the responses from the students. Data collection is done with the help of convenience sampling method. Exploratory factor analysis is used to determine the various factors of challenges of studentswhile studying from home during lock down. SPSS and  Microsoft Excel was used to analyse the data.

Keywords: Communication technology, Covid-19, Exploratory factor analysis, Pandemic.