IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/igg/jskd00/v14y2022i2p1-16.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

COVID-19 Pandemic and Strategizing the Higher Education Policies of Public Universities of Ethiopia

Author

Listed:
  • Chala Wata Dereso

    (Bule Hora University, Ethiopia)

  • Kishor Chandra Meher

    (Bule Hora University, Ethiopia)

  • Abebe Asfawu Shobe

    (Bule Hora University, Ethiopia)

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on higher education policies and their effect on students' academic performance at public universities in Ethiopia. The study adopts a quantitative approach followed by causal analysis by applying structural equation modeling. A sample of 384 has been selected through simple random sampling out of a large population of academic staff spread homogeneously across Ethiopia. The study variables are COVID-19, higher education policies, digital learning, teacher preparedness, and student academic performance. The findings reveal that the hypothesized model becomes a perfect fit. Based on the standardized coefficient, the most influencing path is the effect of higher education policy on digital learning, followed by the impact of COVID-19 on higher education policy, academic performance, and teacher preparedness, respectively. The study has further observed the partial effect of teacher preparedness on the students' academic performance.

Suggested Citation

  • Chala Wata Dereso & Kishor Chandra Meher & Abebe Asfawu Shobe, 2022. "COVID-19 Pandemic and Strategizing the Higher Education Policies of Public Universities of Ethiopia," International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD), IGI Global, vol. 14(2), pages 1-16, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jskd00:v:14:y:2022:i:2:p:1-16
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/IJSKD.2022040101
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:igg:jskd00:v:14:y:2022:i:2:p:1-16. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Journal Editor (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.igi-global.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.