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Deciphering US Students’ Post-COVID Performance Results from National Assessment of Educational Progress

Sun, April 14, 9:35 to 11:05am, Convention Center, Floor: First, 123

Session Type: Coordinated Paper Session

Abstract

As the largest nationally representative, continuing evaluation of the condition of education in USA, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) provides valid measures of the educational achievement and progress of the nation’s students at established grades and ages. The NAEP 2022 results, the first post-pandemic NAEP results, showed declines in mathematics and reading at both grades 4 and 8, compared to 2019. The results were expected, as the COVID-19 pandemic brought widespread disruptions to education systems leading to learning losses or lags. However, how to interpret the NAEP 2022 results remains a challenge as many factors could relate to such large declines. This session tries to decipher US students’ post-COVID performance results in NAEP.

The first study examines whether demographic compositional changes are associated with changes in grade 8 mathematics performance, applying propensity weights. The second study investigates the role of absenteeism in score declines between 2019 and 2022, using multiple regression analyses. The third study examines the absentee rate change by achievement level and contribution of the change to score declines using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. The fourth study investigates achievement gaps by SES before and after the pandemic and how changes differed by student group.

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