Impact of the change from face-to-face to distance modality on the school performance of students in a Mexican high school

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic motivated the hasty transformation of educational settings, going from physical to virtual spaces, from face-to-face to virtual. Virtual media began to be the means of rapprochement between people, and education took that medium to continue its project worldwide. However; This measure revealed the different realities in which we live, being one of the most affected educational areas. The present investigation is of a mixed descriptive exploratory nature, which indicates some particular social aspects of the object of study and is contrasted with the data at the national level, in addition to some data from the analysis of the academic behavior of the students of the Antonio Rosales High School, located in the city of Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, during the first semester of confinement, of the 2019-2020 school year, in the morning groups of the third year of the Philosophy subject, a quantitative approach was followed applying the observation technique. It was identified that the students did not have sufficient digital skills for the development of their classes, in general the educational community faces several problems to overcome digital ignorance, the main obstacle to the development of classes in distance mode.