{"id":77708,"date":"2022-04-19T09:32:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T13:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=77708"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:43","slug":"klinger-klinger-and-volante-high-school-grades-matter-for-post-secondary-study-but-is-pandemic-assessment-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/04\/klinger-klinger-and-volante-high-school-grades-matter-for-post-secondary-study-but-is-pandemic-assessment-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"KLINGER, KLINGER and VOLANTE: High school grades matter for post-secondary study, but is pandemic assessment fair?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Volante, Professor of Education at Brock University; Don Klinger, Pro Vice-Chancellor in the Division of Education at the University of Waikato; and Corrie Rebecca Klinger, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Waikato, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/high-school-grades-matter-for-post-secondary-study-but-is-pandemic-assessment-fair-177187?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20April%2019%202022&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20April%2019%202022+CID_7a2f905903703f9c3e761430ef067377&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=High%20school%20grades%20matter%20for%20post-secondary%20study%20but%20is%20pandemic%20assessment%20fair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about how COVID-19 has impacted student grading and reporting.<\/p>\n<p>They write:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs COVID-19\u00a0restrictions recede\u00a0across\u00a0much of the world, students have navigated changes in modes of learning (from virtual to in-person) and social protocols (for example, no masks).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Even as societies gradually return to normal, we are constantly reminded that COVID-19\u00a0is still very much in our communities. Regions are no longer\u00a0reporting publicly on COVID-19 cases, but in schools, the continued circulation of the virus still means the possibility of\u00a0ongoing extended absences for both teachers\u00a0and students.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In response to pandemic schooling challenges, schools and school boards have implemented policies to\u00a0minimize the negative impact of COVID-19 on students\u2019 grades. Some have frozen students\u2019 grades based on windows of uninterrupted learning, or made exams optional.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Yet the inconsistencies in these policies has undoubtedly led to challenges in terms of equity and fairness. Some high school students\u00a0have voiced concerns about how their post-secondary choices\u00a0could be affected as a result. University students have also raised issues\u00a0about the fairness of grades.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/high-school-grades-matter-for-post-secondary-study-but-is-pandemic-assessment-fair-177187?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20April%2019%202022&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20April%2019%202022+CID_7a2f905903703f9c3e761430ef067377&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=High%20school%20grades%20matter%20for%20post-secondary%20study%20but%20is%20pandemic%20assessment%20fair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/high-school-grades-matter-for-post-secondary-study-but-is-pandemic-assessment-fair-177187?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20April%2019%202022&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20April%2019%202022+CID_7a2f905903703f9c3e761430ef067377&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=High%20school%20grades%20matter%20for%20post-secondary%20study%20but%20is%20pandemic%20assessment%20fair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Volante, Professor of Education at Brock University; Don Klinger, Pro Vice-Chancellor in the Division of Education at the University of Waikato; and Corrie Rebecca Klinger, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Waikato, had a piece recently published in The Conversation about how COVID-19 has impacted student grading and reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,7,6],"tags":[32,98,3028,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77727,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77708\/revisions\/77727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}