Reading achievement declines during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from 5 million U.S. students in grades 3–8

The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented disruption in students’ academic development. Using reading test scores from 5 million U.S. students in grades 3–8, we tracked changes in achievement across the first two years of the pandemic. Average fall 2021 reading test scores in grades 3–8 were ....

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Autores principales: Kuhfeld, Megan, Lewis, Karyn, Peltier, Tiffany
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9383679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35991159
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11145-022-10345-8
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented disruption in students’ academic development. Using reading test scores from 5 million U.S. students in grades 3–8, we tracked changes in achievement across the first two years of the pandemic. Average fall 2021 reading test scores in grades 3–8 were .09 to .17 standard deviations lower relative to same-grade peers in fall 2019, with the largest impacts in grades 3–5. Students of color attending high-poverty elementary schools saw the largest test score declines in reading. Our results suggest that many upper elementary students are at-risk for reading difficulties and will need targeted supports to build and strengthen foundational reading skills. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11145-022-10345-8.
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spelling pubmed-93836792022-08-17 Reading achievement declines during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from 5 million U.S. students in grades 3–8 Kuhfeld, Megan Lewis, Karyn Peltier, Tiffany Read Writ Article The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented disruption in students’ academic development. Using reading test scores from 5 million U.S. students in grades 3–8, we tracked changes in achievement across the first two years of the pandemic. Average fall 2021 reading test scores in grades 3–8 were .09 to .17 standard deviations lower relative to same-grade peers in fall 2019, with the largest impacts in grades 3–5. Students of color attending high-poverty elementary schools saw the largest test score declines in reading. Our results suggest that many upper elementary students are at-risk for reading difficulties and will need targeted supports to build and strengthen foundational reading skills. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11145-022-10345-8. Springer Netherlands 2022-08-17 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9383679/ /pubmed/35991159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11145-022-10345-8 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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