The impacts of remote learning in secondary education during the pandemic in Brazil

Resource type
Journal Article
Authors/contributors
Title
The impacts of remote learning in secondary education during the pandemic in Brazil
Abstract
The transition to remote learning in the context of COVID-19 might have led to dramatic setbacks in education. Taking advantage of the fact that São Paulo State featured in-person classes for most of the first school quarter of 2020, but not thereafter, we estimate the effects of remote learning in secondary education using a differences-in-differences strategy that contrasts variation in students’ outcomes across different school quarters, before and during the pandemic. We also estimate intention-to-treat (ITT) effects of reopening schools in the pandemic through a tripledifferences strategy, contrasting changes in educational outcomes across municipalities and grades that resumed in-person classes or not over 2020’s last school quarter. We find that, under remote learning, dropout risk increased by 365% and test scores decreased by 0.32 s.d., as if students had only learned 27.5% of the in-person equivalent. Partially resuming in-person classes increased test scores by 20% relative to the control group.
Publication
Nature Human Behaviour
Volume
6
Issue
8
Pages
1079-1086
Date
2022-05-26
Journal Abbr
Nat Hum Behav
Language
en
ISSN
2397-3374
Accessed
25/08/2022, 18:41
Library Catalogue
DOI.org (Crossref)
Citation
Lichand, G., Doria, C. A., Leal-Neto, O., & Fernandes, J. P. C. (2022). The impacts of remote learning in secondary education during the pandemic in Brazil. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(8), 1079–1086. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01350-6