Equitable Education During the Pandemic? Which Students Were at Risk of Falling Behind in Mathematics?

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Abstract

Focusing on effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on equitable education, we identified profiles characterized by students’ perceived success and value of learning from home and their families’ as well as their teachers’ support during this time. We utilized latent profile analysis on data from 223 7th-grade students collected during school closure because of the pandemic. The resulting four-profile solution comprises—among others—one unfavorable group of students who did not only show low perceived success and low perceived value of learning math from home, but also reported the lowest support by their families and their teachers in the sample. These students might be seriously at risk of losing ground when there is an increased necessity for learning from home.

Authors

• Sarah Hofer

• Frank Reinhold, Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg