Perceptions of the Learning and Emotions of Beginner Students During the Pandemic

This article compares the perceptions of learning and emotions of students with a high and low academic performances during the course of the pandemic. It undertook an exploratory survey, with a qualitative focus, which followed an inductive logic for the establishment of categories on the basis of the data provided by 132 beginner university students. The results show a positive perception of the synchronic virtual class, along with a negative perception to do with the lack of practical assignments, due to their virtual nature. The emotions they experienced were stress and uncertainty on the part of the students with a high performance and frustration on the part of those with a lower performance.