RAPID: The Impact of COVID on Childrens Well-being in 2022: Continued Evidence from the Understanding America Study

COVID-19大流行对美国学生及其家人的教育造成了巨大的破坏，有证据表明，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。这项研究将建立在该团队从大流行早期开始的先前研究的基础上。研究人员将继续从家庭中收集数据，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），了解父母对COVID-19教育影响的看法。该研究将追踪2022年春季和夏季以及2022-23学年的教育经历。随着大流行期间学校教育的继续，该小组将对学生和家庭进行总体分析，并对感兴趣的关键人口群体进行分析。该RAPID项目允许继续收集至关重要的数据，并有助于继续了解美国家庭对该流行病的影响和应对措施。自2020年3月以来，UAS一直在追踪COVID-19对全国约1,400个幼儿园至12年级儿童家庭的代表性样本的教育影响。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。该项目将支持继续有针对性地向家长提供有关学生整体和STEM科目学习经历和参与的UAS问题。该小组将进行数据分析，并向主要利益攸关方团体传播调查结果和结果。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。该项目还将制作有针对性的研究简报，解决紧迫的政策问题，旨在支持州、地区和学校的干预策略。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 pandemic has been a tremendous disruption to the education of U.S. students and their families, and 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 will build upon the team's prior research from early in the pandemic. Researchers will continue to collect data from families and 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 Spring and Summer of 2022 and into the 2022-23 school year. The team will analyze student and family overall and for key demographic groups of interest as schooling during the pandemic continues. This RAPID project allows critically important data to continue to be collected and contribute to continued understanding of the impacts of and responses to the pandemic by American families.Since March of 2020, the UAS has been tracking the educational impacts of COVID-19 for a nationally representative sample of approximately 1,400 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 the continued targeted administration of UAS questions to parents about students’ learning experiences and engagement, overall and in STEM subjects. The team will conduct data analysis and disseminate findings and results to key stakeholder groups. Findings will be reported overall and across key demographic groups including ethnicity, disability, urbanicity, and socioeconomic status. This project will also produce targeted research briefs addressing pressing policy questions aimed at supporting intervention strategies in states, districts, and schools moving forward. 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.