The pandemic's adverse effects on track recommendation and seventh-grade enrollment were largest for socioeconomically disadvantaged students, enlarging existing inequalities¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? For students from lower-income families without a college-educated parent, pandemic effects were -0.111 levels on track recommendation and -0.083 levels on seventh-grade enrollment. → van de Werfhorst 2024

Evidence¶

van de Werfhorst 2024¶

van de Werfhorst, H. G., Zwier, D., Geven, S., Bol, T. & Haelermans, C. (2024). Inequality in pandemic effects on school track placement and the role of social and academic embeddedness. npj Science of Learning 9:71. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00283-1

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Counterfactual analysis by SES group (parental education combined with household income quintile) in the Dutch register data. The disadvantaged group had no effect on ninth-grade track level, while the other three SES groups showed effects around +0.015 levels; there was no discernable effect on track enrollment for students with a college-educated parent.

"The negative pandemic effect on thefirst two schooling outcomes is the largest for students from socioecono mically disadvantaged backgrounds (-0.111 and -0.083 levels, respectively)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Socioeconomic Status — moderator: an instructional effect differs by group

Related Claims¶

• Limited socioeconomic heterogeneity in the embeddedness–pandemic-effect association: multigroup model fits better but point estimates are largely consistent across SES groups — related
• The pandemic had a slight positive average effect (+0.011 levels) on ninth-grade track level, unlike the negative effects on earlier outcomes — related
• The COVID-19 pandemic had small but statistically significant negative average effects on Dutch students' track recommendation (-0.068 levels) and seventh-grade track enrollment (-0.039 levels) — a broader claim this one bears on
• Children from low-SES families were more negatively affected by COVID-19 school closures than children from high-SES families — related