Study: Students Aren’t Bouncing Back Post-Pandemic
A recent national study showed how the effects of the pandemic still linger for many students.
“Were there signs of stabilization? Yeah, there really were,” Gene Kerns, chief academic officer at Renaissance Learning Inc., said, per The Wall Street Journal. He added, however, that the results are not back to pre-pandemic rates. “There are not signs of a recovery if you define that as getting back to where we were performing before all this.”
Renaissance looked at test results from kids across the country. The group explained that the sample “consisted of students at schools where Star computer-adaptive assessments were used during both the 2020–2021 and 2021–2022 school years. The sample included students from all 50 states plus DC, with 4.4 million K–12 students comprising the early literacy/reading sample and 2.9 million grade 1–12 students comprising the math sample.”
With regard to math, the survey found that the nationwide percentage of students at or above the benchmark went down 2% when contrasting the winter of the 2021-2022 school year and the 2020-2021 school year winter. The same percentage decrease was seen in literacy levels. – READ MORE
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