The Environment of the Student
The survival of any organism is dependent on favorable factors, both internal and external. When homeostasis either internal or external is not achieved the organism cannot survive. In some cases, the presence of a negative factor (COVID-19, for example) can disrupt an organisms equilibrium directly. In other cases, the presence of a negative factor can disrupt other parts of an environment, making it toxic for an organism, ultimately harming it. COVID-19 has done both. It is simultaneous directly causing individual students to get sick, heightening mental health issues, and causing many available services often available to students on campus to be remote, more difficult to access, or completely inaccessible. These negative disruptions can affect a student’s achievement by impeding their ability to process, comprehend and critically think about the information.