Students’ Differences on Perceptions, Beliefs and Attitudes toward the Online Learning

Dodi Erwin Prasetyo, Kusworo Aribowo, Abdul Hadi

Abstract


The spread of online learning was intensified for educational purposes. It is intended to ease and bridge educational stumble, ultimately encountered by students. There were excessively rare study undertaking students’ perception, belief and attitude on the online learning. Therefore, this study aimed at finding to explore students’ perception, belief and attitude on the online learning also to observe the relation among those three variables. This participant of this study was 50 students in East Java. The study used Mann - Whitney U test to gauge the differences between male and female students among three variables. The finding proved that majorities of students have positive perception, belief and attitudes on the online learning. Those finding also unveiled that no statistically significant differences were found between male and female students toward those three variables. Recommendations were addressed for educational stakeholders and pedagogical aspects.


Keywords


Students’ Attitude; Students’ Belief; Students’ Perception; The Online Learning

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