Significant achievement gaps between COVID-year students and pre-pandemic peers persisted at the end of 2022-23¶

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Currency · newest study 2023 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2028: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Significant achievement gaps persisted at the end of the 2022-23 school year between the COVID year student group and their pre-pandemic peers. → Karyn Lewis 2023

Evidence¶

Karyn Lewis 2023¶

Karyn Lewis, Megan Kuhfeld. (2023). Education's long COVID: 2022–23 achievement data reveal stalled progress toward pandemic recovery. NWEA Research brief. https://www.nwea.org/research/publication/educations-long-covid-2022-23-achievement-data-reveal-stalled-progress-toward-pandemic-recovery/

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The brief tracked "the gap in achievement between the COVID year student group compared to their pre-pandemic peers" and reports that "Significant achievement gaps persist at the end of the 2022-23 school year." No effect size is printed in the available text.

"Significant achievement gaps persist at the end of the 2022-23 school year, and the average student will need the equivalent of 4.1 additional months"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Student growth during 2023-24 fell short of pre-pandemic trends in nearly all grades, continuing stalled pandemic recovery — related
• The average student needs an estimated 4.5 additional months of schooling to catch up in math — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Progress toward pandemic academic recovery stalled in the 2022-23 school year despite continued learning — related
• The average student needs an estimated 4.1 additional months of schooling to catch up in reading — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• The achievement divide between high and low achievers widened significantly over the last two years of the pandemic — related
• Pandemic achievement gaps in math and reading continued to narrow from spring 2021 through fall 2022 — reports the opposite
• The study tracked the achievement gap between COVID-year student cohorts and their pre-pandemic peers — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• COVID-19 learning deficits arose early in the pandemic and have neither closed nor substantially widened since then — related
• The average student needs the equivalent of 4.8 additional months of schooling to catch up in reading and 4.3 months in math — related
• The gap between pre-COVID and COVID test score averages widened in 2023-24 in nearly all grades, by an average of 36% in reading and 18% in math — related
• The COVID-affected cohort caught up to the control cohort in reading fluency one year after the pandemic — reports the opposite