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International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)

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Volume: 10 Issue: 05 | May 2023

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Comparison Study of Assessment Results for a Course Offered During and After Pandemic at the United Arab Emirates University Addy Wahyudie1 1Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, F1 Building,

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Abstract - This paper compared the students’ attainment

periods. This because it is very difficult to draw the valid conclusion based on two offering only. During the pandemic, the online course was conducted while the face-to-face with recording during the session was conducted after the pandemic. The instructor keeps the recording of the face-toface based on the recommendation from students that it is a useful feature during the online teaching mode [13]. The recordings made the student easier to get the missing information during the face-to-face sessions.

during and after the pandemic for the course of Special Topic in Power and Control Engineering at the department of Electrical and Communication Engineering, United Arab Emirates University. The course is an elective course. During the pandemic, the course was conducted using online teaching mode. After the pandemic, the face-to-face teaching mode was used, and the sessions were recorded. The attainment of was evaluated based on the students’ grade. There was slightly decreasing of the performance after the pandemic. The questioners were distributed during and after the pandemic to evaluate the performance of the instructor and the course. The performance of the instructor increasing in the face-to-face sessions while the evaluation relating to the course remain the same in both teaching modes.

The paper is organized as follows. In the section of course description, we describe the detail of the course. The statical data were presented in the section of Result and Discussion. Finally, the conclusion was given in the section of Conclusion.

2. COURSE DESCRIPTION

Key Words: Education during and after pandemic, Course Assessment, ABET assessment, Online teaching, Face-to-face teaching, Grade Distribution.

The study was conducted for the Special Topics in Control and Power Engineering (ELEC530) course in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the United Arab Emirates University (UAE-U). The study was conducted during the pandemic (Spring 2021) and after the pandemic (Fall 2022). During the Spring, the teaching mode was online, while in the Fall, the teaching mode was back to face-to-face. The course was divided into two sections: 01 and 51, where the sections comprise male and female students, respectively. The detail of the number of students for the two offering semesters is stated in Table 1.

1.INTRODUCTION During the past three years worldwide experienced extreme changing in education due to before, during, and after pandemic. Before pandemic, majority relied on the traditional face-to-face teaching mode. During the pandemic, almost all academic institutions had been forced to conduct online teaching. Despite some pleas for supporting digital skills in the early of pandemic, as mentioned in [1-2], majority agreed that the online learning was effective [3-6].

Table -1: Number students in the offering semesters.

It is interesting to know the trend of teaching mode after the pandemic. Many educational intuitions selected hybrid mode [7-10] combining both ace-to-face with some feature of the online teaching mode. Study in [11] reported that they prefer small private online class rather than the massive open online courses. Study in [12] was reported that they return to the face-to-face teaching mode and the performance of the student was decreasing due to new adjustment.

Offered Semesters

This study compared the performance of the students during and after the pandemic for the course of Special Topics in Power & Control Engineering in term of the students’ grade and their opinion relating to the performance of the instructor and the course. The study aimed to show the data without drawing a specific conclusion relating to two offered

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Number of Students

Teaching Modes

Spring 2021 (01/male)

Online

Spring 2021 (51/male)

Online

Fall 2022 (01/male)

Face-to-face

Fall 2022 (51/female)

Face-to-face

(Section/gender)

The online teaching mode was conducted using the Blackboard system. The classes were held using the Blackboard’s Collaborative Ultra. All lectures were recorded so the student could easily access the previous lectures. The

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