Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on students’ spelling ability
In order to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic, many schools have been closed for several months as of March 2020 in Germany. The unplanned and rapid shift to distance learning formats has led to fears that extensive learning deficits will be created and educational inequality will be further exacerbat...
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| author | Rzepka Nathalie Simbeck Katharina Müller Hans-Georg |
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| description | In order to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic, many schools have been closed for several months as of March 2020 in Germany. The unplanned and rapid shift to distance learning formats has led to fears that extensive learning deficits will be created and educational inequality will be further exacerbated. This paper, therefore, investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on spelling skills (capitalisation, sounds and letters, separate and compound spelling and punctuation) of students in German-speaking countries. For this purpose, we use granular learning process data from an online learning platform for spelling competences with over 1 million solved exercise sets. We compare successful completion of exercise sets before the pandemic and after the first wave of the pandemic and estimate personal competence by a Rasch model. The result shows a loss of competence in 2020 and an increase in inequality in some grade levels and spelling domains. A linear model cannot confirm an overarching loss of competence. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6775d6a23f704c8aa5ccea0fbc47d8e32023-01-19T13:20:29ZengSciendoResearch on Education and Media2037-08492022-12-01142576310.2478/rem-2022-0022Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on students’ spelling abilityRzepka Nathalie0Simbeck Katharina1Müller Hans-Georg2HTW Berlin, GermanyHTW Berlin, GermanyUniversität Potsdam, GermanyIn order to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic, many schools have been closed for several months as of March 2020 in Germany. The unplanned and rapid shift to distance learning formats has led to fears that extensive learning deficits will be created and educational inequality will be further exacerbated. This paper, therefore, investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on spelling skills (capitalisation, sounds and letters, separate and compound spelling and punctuation) of students in German-speaking countries. For this purpose, we use granular learning process data from an online learning platform for spelling competences with over 1 million solved exercise sets. We compare successful completion of exercise sets before the pandemic and after the first wave of the pandemic and estimate personal competence by a Rasch model. The result shows a loss of competence in 2020 and an increase in inequality in some grade levels and spelling domains. A linear model cannot confirm an overarching loss of competence.https://doi.org/10.2478/rem-2022-0022spellingdistance educationlanguage skillscompetence |
| spellingShingle | Rzepka Nathalie Simbeck Katharina Müller Hans-Georg Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on students’ spelling ability Research on Education and Media spelling distance education language skills competence |
| title | Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on students’ spelling ability |
| title_full | Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on students’ spelling ability |
| title_fullStr | Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on students’ spelling ability |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on students’ spelling ability |
| title_short | Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on students’ spelling ability |
| title_sort | impact of the covid 19 pandemic on students spelling ability |
| topic | spelling distance education language skills competence |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/rem-2022-0022 |
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