Treatment effects were larger for previously higher-performing students and for schools with prior online activities, consistent with complementarity between curricular content and socio-emotional skills¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r3 · q3
Currency · newest study 2024 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Test scores deteriorated more among above-median schools (0.25 s.d. more) and above-median students (0.19 s.d. more) in control schools; the intervention reduced differential losses by about half for these groups. → Lichand 2024 q3 i? The effect was negative but not significant for schools without prior online activities (-0.11 s.d.) and much larger for schools that had them (0.30 s.d.). → Lichand 2024 q3 i? Effects did not significantly vary by student gender. → Lichand 2024

Evidence¶

Lichand 2024¶

Lichand, G., Christen, J., & Van Egeraat, E. (2024). Neglecting students’ socio-emotional skills magnified learning losses during the pandemic. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00235-9

q3 · i? · causal · r3

CATE analysis on the summary test-score measure (960 observations, controls and IPW), by school and student baseline characteristics, gender, prior online activities, and phone ownership. The article states heterogeneous effects were only imprecisely estimated.

"test scores deteriorated more among these groups, to a large extent (by 0.25 s.d. more in above-median schools, and by 0.19 s.d. more among above-median students)"

Discussion¶

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