Study the Influence of a Remote Lab System on Students' Academic Achievement

Jalal Miladi, Halil Ibrahim Akyuz

Abstract: As a result of various emergency circumstances, such as natural disasters, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and wars, face-to-face learning stopped, and educational institutions' programs shifted to distance learning to ensure the continuation of study. One of the challenges facing academic institutions is the difficulty of teaching laboratory courses remotely and the risk of their negative impact on student achievement. This article aims to study the possibility that the remote laboratory can be a successful alternative solution to the traditional laboratory. The experimental study was conducted using a posttest-only control group design, where embedded systems students were randomly divided into two groups. The first group conducted seven experiments remotely, while the control group conducted the same experiments in the college laboratory. Students' academic performance was evaluated, and the results indicated no statistically significant differences between the two methods. This result proves the validity of the study's hypothesis, which states that the remote laboratory is a successful and effective alternative to the traditional laboratory in terms of its impact on the students' academic performance.

Keywords: Student Assessment, Students' academic performance, Remote Lab