Stanford Professor Says The Gender Gap in Test Scores Widened After Covid-19 at Ed School Talk
Stanford Professor Sean F. Reardon lectured at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on declining test scores among young women.
Standardized test scores for female students in low-income areas were disproportionately lower than male students after the Covid-19 pandemic, Stanford University professor Sean F. Reardon told attendees at a Harvard Center for Education Policy Research event on Tuesday.
Standardized test scores dropped nationwide after the pandemic, but Reardon’s research found that scores for female students fell significantly compared to their male peers — especially for those in low-income, under-resourced school districts.
Reardon’s team analyzed data from 7,000 school districts across the country in order to understand elements contributing to the change in the gender gap during the pandemic.
They focused on six key factors including the districts’ minority populations, socioeconomic status, and school resources. He said his project was prompted by a recent finding from the National Assessment of Educational Progress that female students had started to fall “substantially behind” their male peers.
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