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COVID

Overview

Influence: COVID
Domain: School
Sub-Domain: Types of schools
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a negative impact
Influence Definition: COVID caused many schools to close, reduce hours, move to on-line not-in-class teaching.

Evidence

Number of meta-analyses: 8
Number of studies: 223
Number of students: 14,992,803
Number of effects: 839
Weighted mean effect size: -0.18
Robustness index: 3

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	First Author's Country	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Report	Storey & Zhang	USA	A Meta-analysis of COVID Learning Loss	2021	Effects of COVID teaching	10	0	10	-0.15
Education Sciences	Zierer	Germany	Effects of pandemic-related school closures on pupils' performance and learning in selected countries: A rapid review.	2021	Effects of COVID teaching	12	0	12	-0.14
Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice	König & Frey	Germany	The Impact of COVID-19-Related School Closures on Student Achievement—A Meta-Analysis.	2022	Effects of COVID teaching	18	0	18	-0.18
Conference paper	Wisenöcker, Helm, Große, Hübner, & Zitzmann	Germany	Students' learning loss over the course of the COVID-10 pandemic: A meta-analysis.	2023	Effects of COVID teaching	77	0	493	-0.21
Frontiers in Psychology	Hammerstein, König, Dreisörner, Frey	Germany	Effects of COVID-19-Related School Closures on Student Achievement-A Systematic Review.	2021	Effects of COVID teaching	11	0	11	-0.10
Book	Sanz & Tena	Spain	The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Education Learning. In Addressing Inequities in Modern Educational Assessment: Bridging the Gap	2023	Effects of COVID teaching	14	14,992,803	14	-0.18
Educational Research Review	di Pietro	USA	The impact of Covid-19 on student achievement: Evidence from a recent meta-analysis.	2023	Effects of COVID teaching	39	0	239	-0.19
LIEPP Working Paper	Betthauser, Bach-Mortensen, & Engzell	UK	A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on learning	2022	Effects of COVID teaching	42	0	42	-0.14
TOTAL/AVERAGE						223	14,992,803	839	-0.16

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