The impacts of Covid-19 on the students learning behavior

Abstract

The pandemic's unpredictable period affected students’ adjustment to daily life, financial costs, burdens, and “new" learning. The researchers believe that those aspects relate each other. Indeed, this research is not simply to know the students’ problem behavior in the “new" learning class, but it also discover things to reduce risks for academic failure. In addition, the researchers felt urgent to discuss about the impact of COVID-19 towards the university students’ learning behavior in order to evaluate some aspects need to encounter by lecturers for successful “new" learning. This was designed as a descriptive quantitative research. The data were taken by using the Problem Behavior Questionnaire (PBQ) distributed to the students through Google Form. The subjects consisted of 21 students of Economic Education Department Study Program, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, PGRI Wiranegara University. From the questionnaire, the researchers could understand how COVID-19 give impacts on the students in a relation to their sensory, control, and setting/environment. Furthermore, the researchers also evaluated how the students behave towards those counted parts. This research resulted the learning process at pandemic Covid-19 got harder than in the normal situation and it caused many problems in students’ learning behavior. Hence, in order to make the students keep motivated, the lecturers need to give attention and motivation to decrease a negative behavior which also effect to their learning achievement. Keywords: Behavior, Learning, The Impact of COVID 19, University Students.