The report examines how school shutdowns impacted student achievement at the start of the 2020-21 school year¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associational r? · q1
Currency · newest study 2020 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2025: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q1 i? School shutdowns impacted student achievement at the start of the 2020-21 school year, in reading and math. → Moyer 2020

Evidence¶

Moyer 2020¶

Moyer, D. (2020). Learning during COVID-19: Initial findings on students’ reading and math achievement and growth. NWEA Research. https://www.nwea.org/research/publication/learning-during-covid-19-initial-findings-on-students-reading-and-math-achievement-and-growth-visualization/

q1 · i? · associational · r?

The page describes the report's purpose in its own words: it examines "how school shutdowns impacted student achievement at the start of the 2020-21 school year." No findings, statistics, or effect sizes are printed on the page itself.

"In our report, Learning during COVID-19: Initial findings on students’ reading and math achievement and growth, we examine how school shutdowns impacted student achievement at the start of the 2020-21 school year."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Pandemic-period gains from fall 2019 to fall 2021 fell short of pre-pandemic growth norms — related
• Student achievement at the start of the 2021-22 school year lagged pre-pandemic norms, especially in math — related
• In almost all grades, most students made some learning gains in both reading and math since the COVID-19 pandemic started — related
• Pandemic-period growth varied by pre-pandemic achievement status: higher achievers' gains were more consistent with projected normative growth while lower achievers more often fell short — related
• On average, students across most grades made reading and math gains during the 2020-21 pandemic-affected school year — related
• Students in grades 3-8 made reading and math gains in 2020-21 but ended the year with lower achievement than in a typical year, with larger declines in math than in reading — related
• Reading and math gains during 2020-21 were diminished compared to pre-pandemic trends, especially in the latter half of the school year — related
• The visualizations compare observed fall 2020 student achievement to NWEA’s projections — related
• The visualizations address how students performed in fall 2020 compared to a typical school year — related
• The visualizations address how student growth changed since school buildings closed in March 2020 — related