No SES difference was found in kindergarten children's learning loss for reading precursors and inductive reasoning¶

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q3 i? Learning loss for precursor reading skills and inductive reasoning did not differ between children in low-SES and high-SES schools after the first wave or after one-and-a-half years. → Gyöngyvér Molnár & Zoltán Hermann 2023

Evidence¶

Gyöngyvér Molnár & Zoltán Hermann 2023¶

Gyöngyvér Molnár & Zoltán Hermann. (2023). Short- and long-term effects of COVID-related kindergarten and school closures on first- to eighth-grade students' school readiness skills and mathematics, reading and science learning. Learning and Instruction, 83, 101706. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2022.101706

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SES-grouped regression analysis of Grade 1 school-readiness outcomes (Fig. 6). The article reports Cohen's d varied between 0.1 and 0.05 for these domains with no SES difference; equivalence was not formally tested.

"There was no difference in learning loss for precursor skills for reading and inductive reasoning in the mean achievement of children in low-SES schools compared to their peers in high-SES schools after the first wave of the COVID pandemic in October 2020 as well as after one-and-a-half years."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• First graders who missed kindergarten during COVID closures showed the greatest school-readiness loss in basic counting and numeracy skills against pre-pandemic cohorts: d = 0.16 after three months of closures and d = 0.23 for the cohort entering school a year later — related
• Kindergarten closures hit children in low-SES schools hardest in basic counting and numeracy skills (d = 0.2 in 2020; d = 0.3 in 2021), widening inequalities — related
• The negative effect of COVID remote learning was largest among lower primary low-SES students, reaching 25, 20 and 33 points (d = 0.25, 0.20, 0.33) in mathematics, reading and science by autumn 2021 — related