Investigation the effects of education systems on students during and after the Covid-19 pandemic: MCBU I.I.B.F. example

In this study, it is aimed to examine the opinions and thoughts of the students of Manisa Celal Bayar University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences during the 2022-2023 academic semesters regarding the Covid-19 pandemic process and the subsequent distance and face-to-face education systems by factor analysis. The findings obtained as a result of factor analysis were examined and interpretations were made. The data used in the research were collected by questionnaire technique. The analyses were performed using the SPSS-22 statistical package program and the results were obtained by using explanatory factor analysis, one of the multivariate statistical techniques. The number of students who will participate in the survey was determined by taking into account the departments using stratified sampling technique, provided that they took courses with the distance education model during the Covid-19 pandemic and continued their education with the face-to-face education model after the pandemic. In this way, 342 of the 4518 students studying at the faculty were determined as a sample and the research was conducted with 342 students who fully responded to the survey. According to the findings obtained as a result of the applied explanatory factor analysis, it has been seen that the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic process and subsequent education systems on students are explained by two factors. The first of these two factors is named as "Positive Effects of Face-to-Face Education" and the second one is named as "Negative Effects of Face-to-Face Education". These factors explain 69% of the total variance. Keywords: Covid-19, Factor Analysis, Explanatory Factor Analysis, Undergraduate Education, Face-to-Face Education, Distance Education