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

RAPID：2022 年新冠疫情对儿童福祉的影响：来自“了解美国”研究的持续证据

• 批准号: 2214168
• 负责人: Anna Saavedra
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-15 至 2023-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2214168&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Impact; COVID; Childrens; Well

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.

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，有证据表明，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。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收集数据，并旨在通过利用具有全国代表性的纵向研究-理解美国研究(UAS)-了解家长对新冠肺炎教育影响的观点。这项研究将跟踪2022年春夏和2022-23学年的教育经历。该团队将分析学生和家庭的整体情况，以及随着疫情期间学校教育的继续，对关键的人口统计群体的兴趣。这一快速项目允许继续收集至关重要的数据，有助于美国家庭继续了解疫情的影响和应对措施。自2020年3月以来，美国国家统计局一直在跟踪新冠肺炎对教育的影响，样本约为1,400个有K-12学龄前儿童的全国代表性家庭。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。该项目将支持继续有针对性地管理UAS向家长提出的关于学生整体和STEM科目的学习经验和参与程度的问题。该小组将进行数据分析，并将调查结果和结果传播给关键的利益攸关方群体。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。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，旨在支持各州、地区和学校向前发展的干预战略。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。