Analysis of High School students's perception on academic failure in COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Study

Covid-19 pandemic conditions have affected various aspects of students' lives, One of the most important effects in the field of education is academic failure. In-depth and extensive research is needed to investigate the factors affecting academic failure in the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the perceptions of high school students who have suffered quantitatively or qualitatively in the covid-19 pandemic than before. The method of this study is qualitative and with a descriptive phenomenological approach and semi-structured interviews have been used to collect data. Using criterion-based purposive sampling, after 10 interviews with eighth to eleventh-grade students in Mashhad in 1400, the results were saturated. An in-depth analysis of students' perspectives showed that various factors have influenced their academic failure during the pandemic. Which includes three axes: individual, environmental and educational. Individual focus includes distraction, nervousness, Depression, stress (psychological problems), Decreased quality of learning, motivation, cheating, poor reading, shortening of time (learning), And playfulness, electronic games, harmful information, and virtual. Environmental factors include school, recreation (uplifting environments) and family behavior, friends, and classmates (relatives). Educational factors include Internet problems, problems with educational software (educational platform), low quality of teaching, change in class hours, teacher disorder, and teacher non-response. It is recommended that those in charge of this matter try to improve the quality of education, improve the virtual education capability of teachers, take care of mental health and increase the skills of students to be more adaptable to these conditions.