Post COVID-19 Test Score Recovery: Initial Evidence from State Testing Data / Clare Halloran, Claire E. Hug, Rebecca Jack, Emily Oster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halloran, Clare.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Hug, Claire E.

Jack, Rebecca.

Oster, Emily.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w31113.

NBER working paper series no. w31113

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023.

Summary:

The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant disruption in schooling in the U.S., and student test scores showed dramatic declines by the end of the 2020-21 school year. We use state test score data to analyze patterns of test score recovery over the 2021-22 school year. On average, we find that 20% of test score losses are recovered in English language arts (ELA) by 2022, compared to 37% in math. These recovery rates do not significantly vary across demographic characteristics, baseline achievement rates, in-person schooling rates in the pandemic school year, or category-based measures of recovery funding allocations. We observe large state-level variation in recovery rates in ELA - from full recovery to further losses. This evidence suggests state-level factors play an important role in students' academic recovery, but we are unable to isolate particular state factors. Future work should focus on this variation to facilitate a broader recovery effort.

Notes:

Print version record

April 2023.