By spring 2021 students remained behind typical prepandemic achievement averages in both math and reading¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2022 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2027: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Students were 0.16 to 0.26 standard deviations behind typical prepandemic math averages by spring 2021. → Megan Kuhfeld 2022 q3 i? Students were 0.06 to 0.11 standard deviations behind typical prepandemic reading averages by spring 2021. → Megan Kuhfeld 2022

Evidence¶

Megan Kuhfeld 2022¶

Megan Kuhfeld, James Soland, Karyn Lewis, Erik Ruzek, Angela Johnson. (2022). The COVID-19 school year: Learning and recovery across 2020-2021. AERA Open, 8. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584221099306

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Achievement-trend modeling of test scores from 4.9 million U.S. students in Grades 3 through 8 compared 2020-2021 growth against prepandemic averages. The study reports students were "still behind typical (prepandemic) averages by spring 2021," with math deficits of 0.16 to 0.26 standard deviations and reading deficits of 0.06 to 0.11 standard deviations. These are descriptive standardized gaps, not printed effect sizes such as d or g, so impact is null.

"students were still behind typical (prepandemic) averages by spring 2021 (0.16 to 0.26 standard deviations behind in math and 0.06 to 0.11 standard deviations behind in reading)"

Discussion¶

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