ArticleTrends in neuroscience and education2021
Primary school mathematics during the COVID-19 pandemic: No evidence of learning gaps in adaptive practicing results.
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- Effects of COVID-19-Related School Closures on Student Achievement-A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- Performance increases in mathematics during COVID-19 pandemic distance learning in Austria: Evidence from an intelligent tutoring system for mathematics.Trends in neuroscience and education · 2023Article
- The Impact of School Closures during COVID-19 Lockdown on Visual-Motor Integration and Block Design Performance: A Comparison of Two Cohorts of Preschool Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The impact of Covid-19 on student achievement: Evidence from a recent meta-analysis.Educational research review · 2023Article
- The ability of low- and High-SES schools to inhibit learning losses during the COVID-19 pandemic.Social sciences & humanities open · 2023Article
- Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on reading performance of second grade children in Germany.Reading and writing · 2023Article
- Reading and math skills development among Finnish primary school children before and after COVID-19 school closure.Reading and writing · 2023Article
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- Academic Achievement: Influences of University Students' Self-Management and Perceived Self-Efficacy.Journal of Intelligence · 2022Article
- Prior home learning environment is associated with adaptation to homeschooling during COVID lockdown.Heliyon · 2022Article
- Hospital homebound students and K-12 online schooling.PloS one · 2022Article
- School Performance among Children and Adolescents during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Evaluating students' engagement with an online learning environment during and after COVID-19 related school closures: A survival analysis approach.Trends in neuroscience and education · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic induced many governments to close schools for months. Evidence so far suggests that learning has suffered as a result. Here, it is investigated whether forms of computer-assisted learning mitigated the decrements in learning observed during the lockdown.
methodPerformance of 53,656 primary school students who used adaptive practicing software for mathematics was compared to performance of similar students in the preceding year.
resultsDuring the lockdown progress was faster than it had been the year before, contradicting results reported so far. These enhanced gains were correlated with increased use, and remained after the lockdown ended. This was the case for all grades but more so for lower grades and for weak students, but less so for students in schools with disadvantaged populations.
conclusionsThese results suggest that adaptive practicing software may mitigate, or even reverse, the negative effects of school closures on mathematics learning.
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