Changing Patterns of Growth in Oral Reading Fluency During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Changing Patterns of Growth in Oral Reading Fluency During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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COVID-19 大流行期间口语阅读流利度增长模式的变化
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2021
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Heather Hough
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B. Domingue;Heather Hough
COVID-19 大流行期间，教育面临前所未有的破坏；关于随后对儿童的影响的证据至关重要。我们使用口语阅读流利度 (ORF) 评估（一种仅需几分钟即可衡量基本阅读技能的快速评估）的数据来研究新冠肺炎疫情对美国 100 多个学区儿童阅读能力的影响。效果很明显，特别是对于 2-3 年级，但在 2020 年春季和秋季效果明显。虽然许多学生在 2020 年春季没有接受评估，但与其他年份观察到的增长相比，那些接受评估的学生 ORF 的增长似乎相对有限或没有增长。 2020 年秋季，我们观察到了一组更具代表性的学生。对于这些学生来说，增长更为明显，似乎接近前几年的水平。令人担忧的是，还存在分层迹象，成绩较低地区的学生可能会进一步落后。然而，就个体学生而言，那些在大流行之前阅读困难的学生在 ORF 增长方面并未受到不成比例的影响。这些数据提供了一个重要的窗口，了解基础技能如何受到 COVID-19 的影响，并且这种方法可以在未来用于检查随着教育进入后 COVID 范式，学生的能力如何恢复。
Education has faced unprecedented disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic; evidence about the subsequent effect on children is of crucial importance. We use data from an oral reading fluency (ORF) assessment—a rapid assessment taking only a few minutes that measures a fundamental reading skill—to examine COVID’s effects on children’s reading ability during the pandemic in more than 100 U.S. school districts. Effects were pronounced, especially for Grades 2–3, but distinct across spring and fall 2020. While many students were not assessed in spring 2020, those who were seemed to have experienced relatively limited or no growth in ORF relative to gains observed in other years. In fall 2020, a far more representative set of students was observed. For those students, growth was more pronounced and seemed to approach levels observed in previous years. Worryingly, there were also signs of stratification such that students in lower-achieving districts may be falling further behind. However, at the level of individual students, those who were struggling with reading prior to the pandemic were not disproportionately impacted in terms of ORF growth. This data offers an important window onto how a foundational skill is being affected by COVID-19 and this approach can be used in the future to examine how student abilities recover as education enters a post-COVID paradigm.