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‘These results are sobering’: US high-school seniors’ reading and math scores plummet (www.theguardian.com)

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The average reading and math scores of American high school seniors fell to their lowest levels in two decades in 2024, according to new national data released last week.

The results, from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), found that, on average, reading scores for 12th graders were 10 points lower in 2024 than they were in 1992, when the test was first administered, and that math scores fell to their lowest levels since 2005, when the math assessment began.

The test, administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which is part of the US Department of Education, assessed roughly 19,300 12th-graders in math, 24,300 in reading and 23,000 eighth-graders in science between January and March of last year.

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[–] tal@olio.cafe 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

IIRC, COVID-19 policy and remote schooling policy was found to be pretty harmful for student performance. We lost some educational time because our schools weren't operating as effectively. I remember discussion at the time that this would have some amount of lasting negative impact. It also hurt other countries. I don't know how much of this is due to that, but we expected a fall.

kagis

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10266495/

Some snippets:

A Policy Analysis for California Education report found that by the time students completed interim winter assessments in the 2020–21 school year, they had experienced a learning lag of approximately 2.6 months in English language arts (ELA) and 2.5 months in math (Pier et al., 2021). Moreover, economically disadvantaged students, English learners, and students of color experienced a more significant learning lag than students not in these groups (Goldhaber et al., 2022, Pier et al., 2021).

Engzell et al. analyzed performance in reading and comprehension of factual and literary subjects among 350,000 primary school students in national exams before and after an 8-week lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic (Engzell et al., 2020). The results revealed a post-pandemic decrease in reading performance of more than 3 % compared with pre-pandemic test results (Engzell et al., 2020). Similar unfavorable results were reported by Rose et al.’s study in England during the spring and summer of 2020 (Rose et al., 2021), which followed 6000 pupils for two years and evaluated learning performance using National Foundation for Educational Research standardized tests. The results revealed significantly lower reading performance in 2020 compared with a 2017 sample, with 5.2 % of students scoring two marks fewer. Moreover, reading assessments revealed a 7-month progress delay in 2020, compared with a 2019 sample (Rose et al., 2021).

[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 months ago

Kane noted that academic declines are appearing in other countries as well, which suggests a broader global trend that could be linked to increased screen use.

From the article as well. So the pandemic definitely didn't help, but they also don't feel it is only because of that. The article also mentions that the decline started since before the pandemic as well.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Coupled with the fact that we know covid result in at least a moderate rate of medium and long term mental impairment..

Cooked. Entirely cooked.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Based on the teachers I've talked to education stopped completely during Covid.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Kids would mute the classes and watch Netflix. It was a complete joke.

Self paced online classes are also really popular now. You can Google the answers and use LLMs to write your essays, which aren’t typically graded anyway.