IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC WELLBEING

ABSTRACT

This study investigates the impact covid-19 on the socio-economic wellbeing on secondary schools in Egor local government area of Edo State. Four (4) research questions were raised to guide the study.

The study adopted descriptive survey research design for the study and the major instruments used for data collection was the questionnaire. The questionnaire was validated and the reliability was determined through test-retest method. The sample size for this study is three hundred and seventy eight (378) respondents within the area of the study. Which represent ten percent (10%) of three thousand and seven hundred and eighty (3780) students from government senior secondary school selected using a simple random sampling technique

Based on the findings made, it was revealed that many learners had substantial issues with a reliable Internet connection and access to digital devices, students could not connect to online classes due to power failure, academically competent learners from economically disadvantaged background were unable to access and afford online learning and lack of parental guidance, especially for young learners. It was also revealed that why learning from home, they are easily distracted, and can easily sleep off why learning at home. It was also recommended that the government should give a periodic in-service training to teachers in senior secondary schools on the different ICT strategies that will serve learners in urban and rural areas in the online teaching and learning process. It was further recommended that school administrators should devise means of motivating teachers and students towards proper using different procedures of making e-learning attractive to secondary school students from developing countries and further boosting teachers and students’ knowledge of e-learning in the teaching and learning process either online or the conventional classroom learning.