School of Preclinical Medicine, Chengdu University, Chengdu, China.
School of Public Health, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, Gansu, China.
PLoS One. 2023 Apr 25;18(4):e0282907. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282907. eCollection 2023.
To control COVID-19 pandemic, complete lockdown was initiated in 2020. We investigated the impact of lockdown on tertiary-level academic performance, by comparing educational outcomes amongst first-year students during second semester of their medical course prior to and during lockdown. Evidence: The demographics, including educational outcomes of the two groups were not significantly different during semester one (prior to the lockdown). The academic performance amongst women was better than men prior to lockdown. However, the scores were improved significantly for both sexes during lockdown in 2020, following the complete online teaching, compared to that in 2019, showing no significant difference between men and women in 2020, for English and Chinese History. There were significant different scores between men and women in lab-based Histology Practice in 2019 (in-person tuition) and 2020 (online digital tuition), although only a significant improvement in women was observed between 2019 and 2020. Implication: the forced change to online delivery of the second semester of the first-year medical program in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic did not result in any decline in assessment outcomes in any of the subjects undertaken. We believe extensive online digital media should continue to be available to students in future.
为了控制 COVID-19 大流行，2020 年启动了全面封锁。我们通过比较封锁前后医学课程第一学年第二学期的一年级学生的教育成果，调查了封锁对三级学术表现的影响。
在学期一（封锁前），两组人群的人口统计学特征，包括教育成果并无显著差异。在封锁前，女性的学术表现优于男性。然而，在 2020 年全面实行在线教学后，无论是男生还是女生，他们的成绩都比 2019 年有显著提高，这表明在 2020 年，男生和女生在英语和中国历史方面的成绩没有显著差异。尽管 2019 年和 2020 年在线数字教学相比线下实体教学，女性的成绩有显著提高，但在基于实验室的组织学实践中，男女生的成绩仍存在显著差异。
由于 COVID-19 疫情，2020 年被迫将第一学年第二学期的课程改为在线教学，但这并没有导致任何科目的评估结果下降。我们相信，未来应该继续为学生提供广泛的在线数字媒体。
