Association between COVID-19 and outstanding academic performance at a Spanish university
Fares Amer, Tamara López, Mario Gil-Conesa, Silvia Carlos, Arturo H Ariño, Francisco Carmona-Torre, Miguel A. Martínez-González, Alejandro Fernandez-Montero · 2023
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Fares Amer and seven co-authors wrote this 2023 study on whether catching COVID-19 hurt top grades at a Spanish university. The school kept full in-person teaching through the 2020-2021 year. The team followed more than 7,000 undergraduates, testing them across the year and linking infection records to exam results.
About nine percent caught the virus. Among them, only about four percent earned top marks, against about seven percent of the rest. The gap held after the team adjusted for other traits: infection came with roughly forty percent lower odds of a top result. The authors say the drop shows why shielding even young students from infection matters, since the illness can dull the mind's edge for study.
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| CREATOR | Fares Amer, Tamara López, Mario Gil-Conesa, Silvia Carlos, Arturo H Ariño, Francisco Carmona-Torre, Miguel A. Martínez-González, Alejandro Fernandez-Montero |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 22 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |