The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted school, work, and daily life on a global scale. In the wake of this unprecedented health crisis, schools across the United States were forced to abruptly adapt their educational delivery models. Understanding how student learning trajectories shifted throughout the ongoing pandemic is critical for equipping educators, policy makers, families, and other vested partners to respond to and serve students going forward. Using a national sample of oral reading fluency (ORF) scores, we estimated trajectories of literacy development for students in grades 1–5 before and during the pandemic. Results showed that students began fall 2020 (after pandemic onset) with lower average ORF scores than their same-grade peers from the prior (i.e., prepandemic) year. In addition, this disparity in reading fluency between cohorts widened between the beginning- and middle-of-year benchmark periods. Schools must be prepared to serve a population of students unlike that of before the pandemic onset.

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COVID-19 流行病和口语阅读流畅性


COVID-19 大流行扰乱了全球范围内的学校、工作和日常生活。在这场前所未有的健康危机之后，美国各地的学校被迫突然调整其教育提供模式。了解学生学习轨迹在当前大流行期间如何变化对于教育工作者、政策制定者、家庭和其他既得合作伙伴在未来应对和服务学生至关重要。利用全国口语阅读流利度 (ORF) 分数样本，我们估计了大流行之前和期间 1-5 年级学生的读写能力发展轨迹。结果显示，从 2020 年秋季开始（大流行爆发后），学生的平均 ORF 分数低于上一年（即大流行前）的同年级同龄人。此外，在年初和年中基准期之间，群体之间阅读流畅度的差异扩大了。学校必须做好准备，为与大流行爆发之前不同的学生群体提供服务。