ERIC Number: EJ1425514
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-0924-3453
EISSN: EISSN-1744-5124
Inequalities in Learning Loss during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile: The Significance of School Effectiveness
School Effectiveness and School Improvement, v35 n2 p95-115 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic-associated learning losses were unequal across school subjects and sociodemographic groups. This study posits that these losses are also heterogeneous based on pre-pandemic school effectiveness, that is, the value schools added above the expected students' learning based on their socioeconomic background. Using national-scale standardized mathematics and reading test scores, we compared learning losses between 2013-2018 (pre-pandemic) and 2022 at the school level in Chile and examined how they varied according to an indicator of schools' pre-pandemic effectiveness. Schools with high effectiveness underwent the highest pandemic-driven losses, especially in mathematics. These losses were more pronounced as schools reopened later and students' post-pandemic attendance decreased. Educational policies should adjust to this heterogeneity. While high-vulnerability, high-effectiveness schools require support to mitigate the pandemic's effects, low-effectiveness schools must enhance their capacity to foster student learning beyond these impacts.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Effectiveness, Reentry Students, Socioeconomic Status, Mathematics Education, Science Education, Distance Education, Outcomes of Education, Grade 4, Grade 10
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades; Grade 10; High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Chile
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