Ontario Learning Since the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Updated Look at Student Experiences and

Students were asked a variety of questions relating to their demographic characteristics, the impact of the pandemic, the challenges they faced related to course work and their broader postsecondary experience, including perceptions of their institution. [...] The timing of the survey had implications for the representativeness of the sample, so results should not be considered representative of the entire student population. [...] As the survey was administered during the summer, students who were most at risk of not persisting during the previous school year may have left the postsecondary system and were less likely to be present in the sample. [...] Most of the students’ difficulties related to their feelings of self-efficacy and motivation and the transferable skills needed to improve these feelings. [...] Conclusions and Recommendations HEQCO’s previous report, Ontario Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic, documented some of the ways in which the pandemic’s disruptions complicated the transition into postsecondary for students during the 2020-21 academic year.