Evaluate in-school transmission by comparing school incidence trends for students and staff with trends in the surrounding local community¶

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Evidence · 1 claim (1 mixed) · 1 study (1 associational), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 1 claim rests on one study

Description¶

The report's evaluation strategy benchmarks a district's COVID-19 trends against its community rather than against other districts. Mathematica examined "whether COVID-19 incidence trends for students and staff in Pennsylvania school districts using hybrid instruction paralleled or exceeded trends in the local community." This community-referenced comparison serves as the yardstick for judging whether in-school transmission is being mitigated.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Local community COVID-19 incidence trend data must be available for comparison alongside district student and staff incidence data

Constraints¶

• Applied to hybrid-instruction districts in Pennsylvania during fall 2020

Target Learners¶

• K-12 students and school staff

Target Learning Goals¶

• Monitoring whether school operational approaches mitigate in-school infectious disease transmission

Claims¶

• The study examined seven Pennsylvania school districts to test whether hybrid-instruction COVID-19 trends paralleled or exceeded local community trends [~W]

Related Strategies¶

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Brian Gill, Danielle DeLisle. (2021). Hybrid Instructional Approaches and COVID-19 Infection Trends in a Sample of Pennsylvania School Districts, Fall 2020. Mathematica. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/hybrid-instructional-approaches-and-covid-19-infection-trends-in-a-sample-of-pennsylvania-school