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COVID-19 school closures and educational achievement gaps in Canada: Lessons from Ontario summer learning research
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie ( IF 2.619 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-26 , DOI: 10.1111/cars.12334
Janice Aurini 1 , Scott Davies 2
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The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic closed most Canadian public schools for six consecutive months between March and September. This paper explores possible impacts of that closure on student achievement. Longstanding research suggests that lengthy periods of time out of school generally create losses of literacy and numeracy skills and widen student achievement gaps. New American studies have attributed sizeable learning losses to the COVID-19 closures. In lieu of comparable Canadian data, this paper extrapolates from summer learning research to estimate likely shortfalls in literacy and numeracy skills. We draw on data from 14 cohorts of Ontario primary-grade students collected between 2010 and 2015 in which 3,723 attended summer programs and 12,290 served as controls. Across three plausible scenarios, we use meta analyses and OLS and quintile regression models to predict learning losses of 3.5 and 6.5 months among typically-performing and lower-performing students respectively, and achievement gaps that grow up to 1.5 years among same grade peers. After qualifying these predictions, we recommend that provincial ministries offer targeted supplementary programs during the summer and synchronous instruction in the event of future school closures.

中文翻译:

加拿大的COVID-19学校停课和教育成绩差距:安大略省夏季学习研究的经验教训

2020年COVID-19大流行在3月至9月之间连续六个月关闭了大多数加拿大公立学校。本文探讨了这种关闭对学生成绩的可能影响。长期的研究表明,长时间的课余时间通常会造成读写能力和计算能力的丧失,并扩大学生的成绩差距。美国的新研究将大量学习损失归因于COVID-19的关闭。代替可比较的加拿大数据,本文从夏季学习研究中推断出识字和计算能力可能不足的地方。我们利用2010年至2015年期间收集的14个安大略省小学学生的数据,其中3,723人参加了暑期课程,而12,290人担任了对照。在三种可能的情况下,我们使用荟萃分析,OLS和五分位数回归模型分别预测表现最佳和表现较差的学生的学习损失分别为3.5个月和6.5个月,而同年级同龄人的学习成绩差距将扩大到1.5年。在对这些预测进行鉴定后,我们建议各省部委在夏季提供有针对性的补充计划,并在未来学校停课的情况下同步授课。
更新日期:2021-05-26
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