RAPID: Exploring COVID and the Effects on U.S. Education: Evidence from a National Survey of American Households

新冠肺炎疫情对美国学生及其家人的教育造成了巨大破坏，早期证据表明，不同收入和种族/民族的家庭对这种破坏的感受是不平等的。虽然其他正在进行的数据收集工作侧重于从学生或教育工作者的角度理解这种破坏，但人们对父母报告的COVID-19对儿童12岁前教育经历的影响知之甚少，特别是在STEM科目中。本研究旨在通过一项具有全国代表性的纵向研究——理解美国研究（UAS），了解家长对COVID-19教育影响的看法。该研究将追踪2020年夏季至2020-21学年的教育经历，并分析总体结果和主要感兴趣的人口群体。自2020年3月以来，UAS一直在追踪COVID-19对全国代表性样本的影响，样本中有大约1500个学龄前12岁儿童的家庭。早期的研究结果侧重于量化数字鸿沟，并记录2019冠状病毒病爆发后免费膳食和特殊教育服务等重要教育服务的接受情况。该项目将支持有针对性地管理UAS向家长提出的有关学生学习经历和参与情况的问题，包括总体和STEM科目，数据分析，以及向关键利益相关者群体传播结果。调查结果将在包括种族、残疾、城市化和社会经济地位在内的主要人口群体中进行全面报告。这笔赠款还将支持有针对性的研究简报，以解决旨在支持州、地区和学校向前发展的干预策略的紧迫政策问题。将通过现有网络并与其他侧重于了解COVID-19危机的研究项目合作进行广泛传播。所有横截面和纵向UAS数据文件将在给药结束后不久公开提供，以便其他研究人员可以探索COVID-19的相关性和相关结果。该RAPID奖是由学习研究部的DRK-12项目颁发的。探索研究PreK-12项目（DRK-12）旨在通过研究和开发新的创新和方法，显著提高PreK-12学生和教师对科学、技术、工程和数学的学习和教学。DRK-12计划中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究和先前的研究和开发工作的基础上，为项目提供了理论和实证依据。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The COVID-19 epidemic has been a tremendous disruption to the education of U.S. students and their families, and early evidence suggests that this disruption has been unequally felt across households by income and race/ethnicity. While other ongoing data collection efforts focus on understanding this disruption from the perspective of students or educators, less is known about the impact of COVID-19 on children’s prek-12 educational experiences as reported by their parents, especially in STEM subjects. This study aims to understand parents’ perspectives on the educational impacts of COVID-19 by leveraging a nationally representative, longitudinal study, the Understanding America Study (UAS). The study will track educational experiences during the summer of 2020 and into the 2020-21 school year and analyze outcomes overall and for key demographic groups of interest.Since March of 2020, the UAS has been tracking the educational impacts of COVID-19 for a nationally representative sample of approximately 1,500 households with preK-12 children. Early results focused on quantifying the digital divide and documenting the receipt of important educational services--like free meals and special education services--after COVID-19 began. This project will support targeted administration of UAS questions to parents about students’ learning experiences and engagement, overall and in STEM subjects, data analysis, and dissemination of results to key stakeholder groups. Findings will be reported overall and across key demographic groups including ethnicity, disability, urbanicity, and socioeconomic status. The grant will also support targeted research briefs addressing pressing policy questions aimed at supporting intervention strategies in states, districts, and schools moving forward. Widespread dissemination will take place through existing networks and in collaboration with other research projects focused on understanding the COVID-19 crisis. All cross-sectional and longitudinal UAS data files will be publicly available shortly after conclusion of administration so that other researchers can explore the correlates of, and outcomes associated with, COVID-19.This RAPID award is made by the DRK-12 program in the Division of Research on Learning. The Discovery Research PreK-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics by preK-12 students and teachers, through the research and development of new innovations and approaches. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for the projects.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.