Statistical analysis on students’ evaluation and students’ final exam marks in undergraduate Mathematical courses at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a global health issue and has had a major impact on education. Distance learning was implemented during COVID-19 pandemic. Concerns towards the negative impact of online learning such as lack of physical interaction between lecturers and students give rise on the need to study the impact of such a method towards student’s performance and student’s perception in the quality of teaching. This paper aims to determine whether the subject’s mean marks and lecturer’s evaluation (e-PPP) marks differs significantly between the online and face to face teaching method. From the case study of subjects offered by Mathematical Sciences Department in UTM, the results show that there is no correlation between the subject’s mean marks and lecturer’s evaluation marks. Findings from ANOVA show that both marks are not significantly different between the online and face to face of teaching methods. This may indicate the adaptability and readiness from students to experience and embrace the distance learning via online teaching.