Learning losses accumulate because children fall behind the curriculum and outside the range of the pedagogical production function, making no further gains: 72 percent of in-school children after the unmitigated shock¶
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q1 i? Without remediation, the shock places children outside the range of instruction so they learn nothing, with nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of in-school grade 10 children making no learning gains. → Kaffenberger 2021
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Kaffenberger 2021¶
Kaffenberger, Michelle. (2021). Modelling the long-run learning impact of the Covid-19 learning shock: Actions to (more than) mitigate loss. International Journal of Educational Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102326
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Mechanism reported for the unmitigated one-third-loss scenario in the PPF simulation: lost learning puts children behind the curriculum, where they cannot engage with the material and stop gaining skills (Fig. 4).
"By grade 10, nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of children who are still in school have fallen outside the range of the PPF and hence are making no learning gains"
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- A larger shock halving grade 3 learning leaves the cohort 1.5 years behind by grade 10, with more than 80 percent of in-school children learning nothing — related
- In the calibrated simulation, a shock reducing grade 3 learning by one-third leaves the cohort a full year of learning behind the no-shock counterfactual by grade 10 — related
- Remediation combined with long-term reorientation of instruction to children's learning levels fully mitigates the shock and surpasses the no-shock counterfactual by more than a year of learning — related
- The unmitigated shock reduces the share of the grade 3 cohort reaching SDG minimum proficiency in mathematics by grade 10 from 7 percent to 3 percent — related
- Short-term remediation covering missed grade 3 material in grade 4 halves the long-term loss, but leaves the cohort 0.55 years behind the no-shock counterfactual — related
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Learning losses accumulate because children fall behind the curriculum and outside the range of the pedagogical production function, making no further gains: 72 percent of in-school children after the unmitigated shock |
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Learning losses accumulate because children fall behind the curriculum and outside the range of the pedagogical production function, making no further gains: 72 percent of in-school children after the unmitigated shock |
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