ATTITUDE OF STUDENTS TO ONLINE TEACHING-LEARNING DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF UPPER PRIMARY AND SECONDARY CLASS STUDENTS OF MAHARASHTRA

Online education is an area of curiosity intended to be prolonged and has gained a lot of attention from various sectors. Keeping this in view, the current study explored the attitude of Upper Primary and Secondary students towards online teaching -learning process in the current COVID 19 Pandemic situations, especially from Thane District of Maharashtra. This is a research study based on the opinion of SVB SCER Groups schools’ students towards the online teaching learning process. The study was conducted with the help of self-made Google Form (Due to tough access to the schools to go in person, as the world is in lockdown state and also India too). The students’ Attitude scale has 22 items, which has been developed with the help of initial interaction with teachers, parents and students. 50 students from each standard i.e. Standard 7th, 8th ,9th and 10th are randomly selected from the two institutes of SVB SCER group.The comparative analysis was done to find out the attitude of the students from various standards and their schools too. The result showed a positive attitude towards online learning irrespective of standards and schools. However, most students disagreed to continue with the online classes after the situation got normalized as they all preferred coming to school. The study concludes that though students preferred online classes in the current situation, they preferred more attending the school in person i.e. love to come to school.