Title: The Pandemic as a Metrics to Gauging Students’ Accountability: The Case
of Master’s Learners at Saida University
Latifa SELLAM
Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Languages, & Arts,
University of Saida, Dr. Tahar Moulay, Algeria
Abstract
The particularities of the new context spelled the way university students handled research in general, and thus, generating the full picture about some schematic shared views and perceptions. The current study addresses the research approaches adopted by master’s students at Saida University, Dr. Tahar Moulay in conducting final projects in the time of the pandemic end-phase as well as the constraints and hurdles. This study aims at exploring and reporting the trajectory that this population took a path in achieving their research projects, and the experience they may have had with regard to the critical context of the global pandemic. With a mixed-method, and by the means of a semi-structured questionnaire and unstructured interview, we project the research trail andits outcomes. The results postulate that there is an aggregation of factors resulting blatant mediocrity in research, which is attributed first, to the lack of constant supervisory accompaniment. Second, mental health issues that appeared to be detrimental. Third, the unsupportive atmosphere with respect to reaching target populations and peer-exchange. Fourth, resorting to misconduct, and that, dissatisfaction feeling among the participants was predominantly noticeable, and that, they could do better in normal circumstances. Therefore, analyses as such enable us to see in bold salient and embedded features of a hastening context, in which universities and students found themselves in, to better manage future unexpected circumstances.
Keywords:
Accountability, Constraints, COVID-19 pandemic, Mediocrity, Poor performance, Research undertaking
How to Cite this Paper:
Sellam, L. (2024). The Pandemic as a Metrics to Gauging Students’ Accountability: The Case of Master’s Learners at Saida University.In Proceedings of the First Online International Conference of Teaching and Learning in Post-COVID: Reality and Expectations, Saida University, 12-13 December, 2023, pp. 24-32
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