Grade 11 Students' Online Learning Behavior and Satisfaction towards Learning Physics during the COVID-19 at a High School in Narathiwat

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic situation has changed education around the world. Instructional systems have been modified to be in an online format. The purpose of this research was to investigate high school students’ online physics studying behavior and their satisfaction with these studies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample group consisted of 103 students in Grade 11 across four physics classrooms at a high school in the first semester of academic year 2021. The data were collected using an online questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The statistics used included percentage, frequency, mean, and standard deviation. The results of the research revealed that overall, online learning behaviors were at a moderate level which the highest average mean was the teaching time that the teacher allowed students to have opportunity to ask some questions and shared their opinions (=3.40). It was also found that students' satisfaction with online learning was overall at a moderate level. The aspect with the highest average satisfaction was technology and communication (=3.27), followed by time and place (=3.16), and the aspect with the least satisfaction was the learners themselves (=3.00). Students of different ages did not differ in their learning satisfaction. In addition, interviews with 14 students indicated that issues affecting online learning behaviors included ambient noise while studying online and lack of dedicated physical learning spaces. Overall, students preferred onsite learning to online learning.