The emergence of the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 throughout the world has affected many areas of human activity and has had a particularly large impact on education. It required students, their parents, and teachers to make rapid adjustments as education moved online very quickly. The aim of the research was to find out what the attitudes of students and their parents were towards emergency distance education. For students, we were interested in what learning strategies they used before and after the epidemic, and for parents, how and in what ways they were involved in their children's education before and during the epidemic. The study, conducted during the last five weeks of distance education during the first wave of the Covid-19 epidemic in May 2020, included 358 students from the last triad of primary and high school students and 495 parents of school-aged children in the same age group. 133 related student-parent pairs were also included in the study. Results showed that students and their parents faced a number of problems during distance education - students reported a lack of contact with classmates, whilst parents reported having the most difficulty coordinating between work and remote schooling of their child, more school-age children, and more difficulty motivating their child to complete school work at home. Parents generally consider distance education to be more complicated and difficult than traditional classroom instruction and believe that students have acquired less knowledge, which is also less consolidated. Students also agree with that statement and add that distance education is less motivating. Nevertheless, students reported positive aspects of this type of schooling, namely that they have become more independent during distance education, and both parents and students agree that this type of schooling will become important in the future. Students report using elaboration strategies significantly more often during distance education than during traditional classroom instruction, and they also report exerting less effort on schoolwork. Parents, on the other hand, report significantly higher active engagement and promotion of independence during the epidemic compared to previously. We also found that evaluations of distance education were largely consistent between parents and school children within the same family.
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