Performance analysis of students of technical professional education in Logistics before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The investigation discusses the results obtained by students of the technical course in logistics integrated into high school at the Institution of Professional Technical Education - IETP - during the years 2019, 2020 and 2021, freshmen in-person teaching and who experienced the last two years of their training in the form of synchronous online classes due to the international pandemic caused by the Covid-19 virus. The migration from the in-person teaching modality to EaD - Distance Learning - was conducted on an emergency basis established by the institution and technically conducted through the Teams application. The analysis and discussion of the results of direct approvals, approvals with partial progressions in one, two or three curricular components, mentions, frequencies and direct retentions in the in-person mode, compared with the years they attended in EaD mode is the main objective of the investigation. The type of research adopted is exploratory with a quantitative approach and is conducted through documents by extracting and collecting data obtained from the IETP database, derived from minutes of annual class councils conducted by the institution's governing body, by teachers and monitored by student representatives. It is also about descriptive research and analyzes of measures of central tendency and dispersion. The results are presented in graphs and tables for better visualization, considering the analyzes carried out between the final results obtained by the professors in the years 2020 and 2021, comparing them referentially to the initial year of the analysis (2019), in which refers to the statistical analysis of mentions, correlated comparison of attendance and partial progressions that students faced during the period in which EaD was in force. The final considerations are shown in the form of reflections supported by the analysis of the results and factors that contributed to their implementation.