Abstract:

The global pandemic of the SARS-CoV-2 corona virus is a continuing pandemic of COVID-19, caused by an acute respiratory syndrome called SARS-CoV-2, which has claimed many lives on the planet. In Slovakia, the first confirmed case ("patient zero") appeared on March 6, 2020 near the capital Bratislava. Slovakia is specific in that it reacted very quickly and vigorously to the pandemic at the national level. University students have remained in distance education since about mid-March 2020, it is a summer semester of the school year 2019/2020. In the school year 2020/2021, the situation worsened again after the summer and the students stayed at home in the winter and summer semesters. Throughout the school year, not only online teaching but also exams took place.

The aim of the article is evaluated to find out the changes in the performance of students who passed the exams during three semesters. The results during distance learning were compared with the results achieved during the full-time form of teaching in the period before the pandemic crisis. The analysis included a sample of 150 students from various fields of study. We monitored the achieved results for 3 subjects (business economics, microeconomics and accounting).
An analysis of students' performance in exams during distance learning shows that our university students were not prepared for self-study. The results indicate a deterioration in performance in 25.33% of students in all three subjects.

Keywords:

Student performance, distance learning, Covid19.