COVID-19 SOCIO-ECONOMIC

This study investigates the impact covid-19 on the socio-economic wellbeingon secondary schools in Egor local government area of Edo State. Four (4)research questions were raised to guide the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design for the studyandthemajor instruments used for data collection was the questionnaire. Thequestionnaire was validated and the reliability was determined throughtest-retestmethod. The sample size for this study is three hundred and seventy eight (378)respondents within the area of the study. Which represent ten percent (10%) ofthree thousand and seven hundred and eighty (3780) students fromgovernmentsenior secondary school selected using a simple random sampling techniqueBased on the findings made, it was revealed that many learners had substantialissues with a reliable Internet connection and access to digital devices, studentscould not connect to online classes due to power failure, academically competentlearners from economically disadvantaged background were unable to accessandafford online learning and lack of parental guidance, especially for younglearners. It was also revealed that why learning from home, they are easily distracted, andcan easily sleep off why learning at home. It was also recommendedthat thegovernment should give a periodic in-service training to teachers inseniorsecondary schools on the different ICT strategies that will serve learners inurbanand rural areas in the online teaching and learning process. It was furtherrecommended that school administrators should devise means of motivatingteachers and students towards proper using different procedures of makingelearning attractive to secondary school students from developing countries and8further boosting teachers and students’ knowledge of e-learning in the teachingandlearning process either online or the conventional classroomlearning.