The Distance Learning Implications on High School Students

The necessary changes in the educational processes because of COVID-19 pandemic has many immediate and long-time implications. It is now clear that the stress of distance learning and lock-down have changed young persons in many aspects. In our research, we have focused on the teens - high school students from secondary schools in Slovenia. We wanted to see how they cope with the distance learning and the implication on their performance. Anonymous survey was answered from 325 high school students from all four years of secondary education. The questionnaire consisted of 38 questions grouped in two categories: (1) application of learning styles (2) assessment of the students' performance. The stress of change affected the teachers and students alike. Some teachers used distance-learning methods more effectively than others did. We wanted to know how teachers' skills influence the students' performance. The obtained data and their analysis have shown that visual, reading and auditory kinesthetic learning styles have (significant) impact to the grade of high school students depending on study subjects. On the other hand, only kinesthetic distance-learning methods influence the performance of high school students in arts.