After some thorough revision and brainstorming, I came up with a revised research question. What impact did the switch to online learning as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic have on college students’ performance?  Some search terms for my research I decided to use were pandemic, online learning, and college students. I chose to use the following search terms mainly because I sought it would aid me in finding relevant information I would then be able to use in my research and explore in depth. These are my bibliographic citations for my two sources.

Stone, Adam. “Tech at School: How Teachers Are Maximizing Digital Tools in Today’s Classrooms.” USA Today, Gannett Satellite Information Network, 17 Aug. 2022, www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/08/16/tech-digital-education-tools-teachers-classroom/10309613002/.

Fawcett, Eliza. “The Pandemic Generation Goes to College. It Has Not Been Easy.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022, www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/covid-college-students.html.

In “The Pandemic Generation Goes to College. It Has Not Been Easy.” writer Eliza Fawcett goes in-depth with the generation that suffered from the pandemic in this case being high school students transferring over to college. Eliza explains that a lot of material that the students needed to absorb has been missed and not fully taught to them as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. She explores all the problems students had to face and restrictions that were brought to place as a result. The complete absence from the school scenery slowly shifted them away from that experience. Eliza explains that students had difficulty even learning or staying on task due to outside factors occuring on their lives that unenabled them to stay focused.  As well as stating resources usually offered to students in school like extra help or 1 on 1 were not always available or frequent. Eliza quotes “The problems have been particularly bad for first-year students, said Paulo Lima-Filho, the executive director of the university’s math learning center, which provides tutoring” Eliza in quoting the executive director Paulo Lima-Filho explicitly shows the distress that exists within universities and the challenge first-year students face as a result from dealing with the pandemic, negatively hurting them as a result.