Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311984 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17545
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We used data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic to examine how Italian upper secondary schools organized their activities for remote learning (RL). We conducted a three-level survey, administering questionnaires to each institution's students (11th and 13th graders, 11,154 students), 3,905 teachers, and 105 principals. We describe how schools adjusted to the pandemic to ensure learning effectiveness during RL, how teachers and principals managed the transition from traditional to online teaching, and the perceptions of students, teachers, and principals regarding the effectiveness of RL. The analysis stresses Italian schools' challenges in changing teaching styles during RL and identifies individual and school-level inequality patterns. It also underscores a significant gap between teachers' perceptions of their digital skills and the actual use of ICT in class during RL activities. Results identify a positive and robust relationship between the student's perceptions of learning and other outcomes related to student success with the use of innovative teaching methodologies and appropriate organizational innovations, and the adoption of specific teachers' training.
Subjects: 
remote learning
COVID-19
socio-economic disparities
JEL: 
I21
I24
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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