AUTHOR=Pilotti Maura A. E. , Faisal Nouf Y. , Hassan Samia A. M. , Cavazos Sandra E. , Elmoussa Omar TITLE=Female students’ responses to change JOURNAL=Frontiers in Education VOLUME=7 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2022.929998 DOI=10.3389/feduc.2022.929998 ISSN=2504-284X ABSTRACT=

The present research examined students’ responses to the post-pandemic instructional world. The participants were women of society transitioning from a patriarchal order to one fostering gender equity in education and employment. At the end of the first semester, which highlighted their return to campus, students completed a questionnaire on their self-efficacy and a questionnaire on their responses to the post-pandemic learning environment as compared to the pandemic one. Students’ self-management of motivation, effort, time, self-regulation of attention, and time and effort investment revealed three kinds of responses to change: adaptation, maintenance, and surrender. Responses varied with self-efficacy. These multidimensional patterns were interpreted to discover how best to provide support services in the post-pandemic ecosystem.