ATTITUDE OF SCHOOL STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND PARENTS TOWARDS ONLINE TEACHING LEARNING PROCESS

The COVID-19 pandemic, a public health crisis of worldwide importance, announced by the World Health Organization (WHO) in January 2020 as an outbreak, has made distance education through the E-learning system an urgent and irreplaceable requirement. The present study aims to assess the attitude of school students, teachers & parents towards online teaching learning process. This is a questionnaire based, descriptive study. A total of 200 Students and Parents and 50 secondary school Teachers were randomly selected who were subjects of the survey using the convenience sampling method via questionnaires. An Attitude Scale employed contained 19 items for students, 20 items for Parents and 21 items for Teachers. The analysis of the quantitative data revealed that attitude of students and teachers w.r.t gender in online classes is comparable with df 48 and t- value of 0.4 and that of school parents w.r.t gender revealed df 198 with t-value of 3.4 indicating suggestive relationship. It was uncovered that female parents have more affirmative attitude towards online learning process as compared to male parents Conversely, reluctance to adopt e-learning on the part of parents could be accredited to lack of ICT facilities and online teaching skill, improper ICT training, notion of e-learning shall not be better in improving the quality of their instructional delivery and environmental factors. While result from qualitative data revealed that teachers and parents preferred classroom teaching over online teaching based on the motives like; classroom teaching being more authentic, comfortable and affordable. Students irrespective of the gender found online learning more engageable and vital for teaching and learning platform The findings from this study can be handy for the parents, school students and teachers while taking decision on adoption of e-learning.