Evidence of productivity recovery among undergraduate industrial engineering

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted on various aspects of education across the world. The study outlined in this article was focused on the changing level of students’ productivity in the Philippines at the inception and duration of the pandemic. Work sampling was employed to quantify and analyse the time spent by undergraduate industrial engineering students on their academic and personal activities as a measure of productivity during the pandemic. It was found that students exhibited productivity recovery, that is, the time they spent on academic activities after a year of remote learning was higher relative to during the emergency transition to remote learning at the beginning of the pandemic. The analysis of the multilevel categories of activities, both academic and personal, revealed that the productivity increase can be attributed to the adjustments made by the instructors taking advantage of synchronous classes, self-regulation and improved time management of students, and enforced student identity in a learning-fromhome setup