Students' perceptions and attitudes towards distance education - Empirical research on junior high school students during the school year 2020-2021

The present study explores the perceptions and attitudes of junior high school students (12-14 years old) about e-learning (effectiveness, interest and pleasure from online learning, consistency in attending their classes and diligence in homework), their relationship with factors such as gender, their grade, the device they used to participate in their online classes (desktop computer / laptop / tablet / mobile phone) and their grades (first four-month score of the school year 2020-2021), as well as factors such as students" relationships with their teachers, their classmates and the school administration, the available electronic equipment and their digital literacy. The research was conducted in May 2021, in the midst of the pandemic of the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and involved 252 students of the Junior High School of Pefkon Thessaloniki, one of the largest Junior High Schools in the country, with more than 500 students.