Lockdown stringency and school closure duration are associated with greater declines in student trust in civic institutions¶
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Evidence · 1 study · associationalr3·q2
Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
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q2 i? The strongest relationship with school closure duration was with the trust in civic institutions measure (-0.08SD). → Kennedy 2026
Evidence¶
Kennedy 2026¶
Kennedy, A. I., Mejía-Rodríguez, A. M., Strietholt, R. (2026). Civic Education Outcomes After Emergency Lockdowns: International Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Preprint submitted to Learning and Instruction. https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-dataset
q2 · i? · associational · r3
Comparison of standardized coefficients across outcomes in the same analysis. The trust measure carried "the strongest relationship with school closure duration", printed as -0.08SD.
"And the strongest relationship with school closure duration was found with the trust in civic institutions measure (-0.08SD)."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Civic Mindedness — outcome: instruction changes it
Related Claims¶
- Robustness of the lockdown-civic outcome associations varies by outcome, with legal protest and trust/closure results most consistent — related
- Item-level declines in trust under lockdown stringency are driven by local government and parliament, with no significant relationship for trust in political parties — related
- Longer school closures are associated with greater declines in grade 8 civic knowledge — related
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lockdown-trust-civic-institutions-declines |
title |
Lockdown stringency and school closure duration are associated with greater declines in student trust in civic institutions |
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Lockdown stringency and school closure duration are associated with greater declines in student trust in civic institutions |
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moderate |
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2026 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-23 |
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1 — kennedy-2026 |
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