The e360 (2022) aims to

1. provide a comprehensive picture of the state of students’ learning and socioemotional wellbeing after multiple waves of school suspension arising in both primary (P3 – 6) and secondary schools (S1-to 5) from the pandemic in Hong Kong between 2020 to 2022;
2. elicit an understanding of how students’ learning and socioemotional wellbeing has been affected by factors at different levels (school leader, teacher, parent, and student) including the input of community organisations; and
3. provide empirical evidence on effective practices and identify issues that could inform a restorative roadmap at family, school, community, and policy levels, paving the way forward for building a resilient, future-oriented education ecosystem that is fit for purpose in the New Normal of education.

The e360 (2022) is underpinned by the understanding that teaching and learning opportunities and outcomes during (and after) the fifth wave of school suspension is influenced by a comprehensive range of factors (or enablers) at the school, teacher, parent, and student levels. These factors then affect intermediate outcomes at different levels (school, teacher, parent, and student) and distal student outcomes that include learning and wellbeing. Students’ digital literacy is expected to moderate the relationships between the intermediate outcomes and distal student outcomes in view of the ubiquitous use of home-based online learning during the school suspension. The conceptual framework maintains the ecological perspective that informed the e360 but also incorporates a more nuanced understanding of the multilevel factors based on findings from the e360 analyses. The e360 (2022) is designed to build on and enhance the maiden e360 project in three ways, namely the focus on investigating students’ digital learning (namely, digital literacy) as an important protective factors, examining students’ wellbeing (comprising mental health, cognitive-emotional regulation, cyberbullying victimization and perpetration, and digital resilience) and learning at a deeper level, and analyzing relevant self-evaluation data available in schools. A survey study, based on this framework, will be conducted after schools reopen.

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