Remote schooling during the 2020-21 academic year contributed to “highly significant” learning loss, according to a new study published Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Test scores fell across the board, with pass rates declining by an average 14.2 percentage points from pre-pandemic levels in mathematics and an average of 6.2 percentage points for English. However, whether a student learned in school or at home dictated in large part how pronounced the drop in scores would be.“The decline in students’ 2021 test scores as compared to prior years was significantly larger in districts which offered less access to in-person schooling,” the NBER researchers wrote.
The drop in English test scores was smaller, and the gap between the scores in remote and in-person districts was not quite as pronounced as in math, though still significant. Students who went to school in person lost only 3.1 percentage points, giving them a 50 percent edge over their Zoom-schooled counterparts.
A student in Orange, Calif., follows along from home in December 2020 as her teacher shows a math problem. , an economist at Brown University who is one of four authors on the new learning loss study. “But it is one measure of learning.” She and her co-authors pointed out that districts that pushed for continued remote learning were also more likely to ask for waivers from standardized testing.
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