The Impact of Virtual Learning on EEL Learners’ Performance in the Assessment Results during Covid19 Pandemic

Abstract

In early 2020, a sudden pandemic known later as Covid19 spread all over the world and in the Gulf region. The immediate action of education authorities in the Gulf was taken after a short break period to shift the learning system across the Gulf from conventional face-to-face learning to virtual learning. This paper investigated the impact of the sudden shift in learning from the institution students' feedback and academic performance during the COVID-19 epidemic study period. This study intends to analyze the impact of virtual learning on EEL learners' performance within the assessment results during the Covid-19 pandemic and also to assess the usage of the assessment results from tools at the time of the Covid19 pandemic. Moreover, it intends to give the students' educational performance once the sudden shift into Virtual- Learning supported their final ends up results in the assessment results. The information was gathered via a questionnaire which was distributed randomly among English male students in the English Group Centre. It was responded to by 23 students. Items of the questionnaire were designed quantitatively. The organized inquiries estimated the assessment reactions to explain the target reactions and simultaneously improve the definition of suggestions of the study. The study recommends making students well-trained in the electronic assessment mode so as to promote the learners’ performance within the assessment results online since the result indicated that they prefer traditional learning to Virtual learning.