eng info:eu-repo/semantics/article Плазинић, Љиљана All rights reserved 2022 Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; online classes; high school; Republic of Srpska; quantitative-qualitative mixed-method research Beograd: Filozofski fakultet Students’ Perception of Teaching Practices and Parents’ Educational Status as predictors of Students’ Self-Efficacy in Televised Instruction Abstract: This research aimed to examine the opinions about the online teaching process in the Republic of Srpska during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, from the perspective of high school students, high school teachers, and parents of high school children. Groups responded to several close-ended and open-ended questions. Overall, there were significant differences between the groups, most notable in perceiving the number of obligations from teachers in online class, fear of “braking under pressure” from the workload, perceived difficulty in mastering the school material, as well as perceived relief due to not having to go to school. Specifically, students perceived online school workload as more challenging and the pressure as more intense than teachers and parents did. The most common suggestion for improving the online teaching process given by students, and echoed by teachers and parents, was to make online teaching more interactive and engaging. This research provides several useful insights that could be used to inform and build a more optimal approach to the online teaching process in possible new extraordinary circumstances in the future that would force the teaching process back to online modality again. Proceedings Of The XXIII Scientific Conference Empirical Studies In Psychology XXVIII naučni skup Empirijska istraživanja u psihologiji application/pdf 679792 bytes https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:32465