Math learning taking a hit during COVID
By on February 26, 2021
AS WE NEAR the one-year mark of the unprecedented disruption to our public education system wrought by the pandemic, we are grappling with what we have lost and what we have learned. While it’s still too early to determine the total effects that remote learning will have on student learning, testing data from this fall is proving instructive.
In a November report, Northwest Evaluation Association compared the results of more than 4.4 million students in grades 3-8 who took the MAP (Measure of Academic Progress) Growth test in fall 2020 to the results of their peers who were tested in fall 2019. The researchers found no difference in reading levels, but an average 5-to-10 percentile-point difference in math, with black and Hispanic students in upper elementary grades experiencing the greatest learning losses. Parents, who now have front row seats in their homes to their children’s education, have also shared concerns about their kids’ math learning in recent polls.
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