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庭的教育造成了巨大的破坏，早期证据表明，这种破坏在不同收入和种族/民族的家庭中感受到的影响并不相同。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来理解这种颠覆，但关于新冠肺炎对家长报告的儿童K-12学前教育经历的影响，特别是在STEM科目方面，知之甚少。本研究旨在利用一项具有全国代表性的纵向研究--理解美国研究(UAS)，来了解家长对新冠肺炎教育影响的看法。这项研究将跟踪2020年夏季和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一直在跟踪全国具有代表性的大约1,500个有K-12学龄前儿童的家庭的教育影响。早期结果集中在量化数字鸿沟和记录新冠肺炎开通后接受重要教育服务的情况，如免费餐饮和特殊教育服务。该项目将支持有针对性地管理UAS向家长提出的关于学生的学习经历和参与、总体和STEM科目、数据分析以及向关键利益攸关方群体传播结果的问题。调查结果将在总体上和包括种族、残疾、城市化和社会经济地位在内的关键人口群体中报告。这笔拨款还将支持有针对性的研究简报，解决紧迫的政策问题，旨在支持州、区和学校向前发展的干预战略。将通过现有网络并与其他侧重于了解新冠肺炎危机的研究项目合作，进行广泛传播。所有横断面和纵向的UAS数据文件将在管理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。这一快速奖项由学习研究部门的DRK-12计划颁发。探索研究学前班计划(DRK-12)旨在通过研究和开发新的创新和方法，显著提高学前班学生和教师在科学、技术、工程和数学方面的学习和教学。DRK-12计划中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究以及为项目提供理论和经验证明的先前研究和开发工作的基础上。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.