Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Keywords
COVID-19, grading, graduation, pandemic, state department of education
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Education Policy Analysis Archives
Volume
30
First Page
1
Last Page
22
Abstract
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many United States brick-and-mortar schools in Spring 2020 rapidly transitioned to emergency remote learning. School leaders grappled with how grades ought to fit within the many unknowns of K-12 remote education. In some cases, schools modified their grading scales to give students greater flexibility to pass courses, and in other situations, schools offered incomplete grades in lieu of failures. During this time, state departments of education (DOEs) provided a variety of guidance documents to their school districts. The purpose of this study was to explore the components of state DOE grading guidance during the Spring 2020 school shutdown, along with the patterns of guidance across states. The researchers applied a grounded theory approach to systematically explore the equivalent of 1,444 pages of documents from 48 state DOE guidelines. The document analysis resulted in three primary categories that influenced state DOE grading guidance: guiding principles, student advancement, and determining grades. The researchers conclude by presenting and discussing a three-category model for emergency remote learning grading guidelines for K-12 schools. In the event of another pandemic temporarily affecting the delivery of education to students, policymakers may use this model as a starting point for future recommendations.
Department
Department of Educational Psychology, Foundations, and Leadership Studies
Original Publication Date
1-1-2022
Object Description
1 PDF file
DOI of published version
10.14507/EPAA.30.7448
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Date Digital
2022
Copyright
©2022 The Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Townsley, Matt and Kunnath, Joshua, "Exploring State Department Of Education Grading Guidance During Covid-19: A Model For Future Emergency Remote Learning" (2022). Faculty Publications. 5318.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/5318
Comments
First published in Education Policy Analysis and Archives, 30:163 (2022) published by Arizona State University. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.30.7448