NISS Ingram Olkin Forum presentation on modeling COVID-19 school openings, closings, and learning loss¶

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Description¶

A 2020 presentation by Megan Kuhfeld delivered as part of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) Ingram Olkin "Statistics Serving Society" Forum. The forum convened experts who "share statistical and data-analytic challenges they have faced as they have reported on and researched issues around the impact of COVID-19 in U.S. schools." The presentation addresses modeling of school openings, closings, and learning loss during the pandemic. It is hosted by NWEA Research, which lists it under the topics COVID-19 & schools and Measurement & scaling.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Access to the recorded presentation via the NWEA Research page, which instructs readers to "Watch the presentation" and to "Read more on the forum and presenters on the NISS webpage."

Constraints¶

• The page itself is a description of a forum presentation rather than a full research report; it directs readers to the NISS webpage for forum and presenter details.

Target Learners¶

• U.S. K-12 school students affected by COVID-19 disruptions

Target Learning Goals¶

• Understanding and modeling pandemic-related learning loss and school opening and closing decisions

Claims¶

• The forum addressed modeling of school openings, closings, and learning loss during COVID-19 [+W]
• Experts at the NISS Ingram Olkin Forum shared statistical and data-analytic challenges in researching COVID-19's impact on U.S. schools [+W]
• Education leaders had little data on the impacts of school closures on learning at the time of the COVID-19 spring 2020 closures [+W]
• Educators and evaluators faced open questions about how to measure student performance after COVID disruptions [+W]
• Existing research on missing school from summer breaks, weather closures, and absenteeism can inform projections of pandemic learning loss [+W]
• COVID-19 school closures will likely impact student academic achievement [+W]
• COVID-19 closures left schools and districts serving 55.1 million students in an unprecedented time [+W]

Related Elements¶

• NWEA seminar presentation projecting COVID-19 learning loss and 2020-21 test score effects

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Key Sources¶

• Megan Kuhfeld. (2020). NISS Ingram Olkin Forum: COVID and the Schools: Modeling Openings, Closings, and Learning Loss. NWEA Research presentation. https://www.nwea.org/research/publication/niss-ingram-olkin-forum-covid-and-the-schools-modeling-openings-closings-and-learning-loss/