Technical brief
Technical appendix for progress towards pandemic recovery continued signs of rebounding achievement at the start of the 2022-2023 school year
December 2022
Description
The purpose of this technical appendix is to share more detailed results and to describe more fully the sample and methods used in the research included in the brief, Progress towards pandemic recovery: Continued signs of rebounding achievement at the start of the 2022-23 school year.
We investigated two main research questions in this brief:
1) How do summer learning patterns in summer 2022 compare to a pre-pandemic summer?
2) Do we continue to see signs of test scores rebounding at the start of the 2022-23 school year?
Topics: COVID-19 & schools, Equity
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