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Convenor(s): Veronica Mobilio (Fondazione per la Scuola, Italy); Gianluca Argentin (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy); Ilaria Lievore (Fondazione per la Scuola, Italy)
Presentation 1
The Global Impact Of The Pandemic On Student Outcomes
Louis Volante1, Don A. Klinger2
1: Brock University; 2: Murdoch University
This paper provides a preliminary overview of the impact of the pandemic on K-12 student learning losses. The authors summarize some of the more salient trends documented globally in the aftermath of the pandemic such as deteriorations in cognitive and non-cognitive student outcomes such as socioemotional learning, mental and physical health. Examples of prominent education policies and interventions that have been adopted to address these cognitive and non- cognitive student outcomes will be highlighted. The authors describe the types of evidence that currently exist, and the strengths and limitations of the evidence used to enact pandemic related education policies. The introduction also explains the rationale for the selection of educational jurisdictions that are represented in a recently published Routledge volume. The introduction situates the importance of the volume within a broader global context, arguing that the pandemic and resulting research provides an illustration of the educational impacts of unexpected, devastating events that suddenly change the learning environment, and the differential impacts on these sudden changes on vulnerable student populations.
