Assessment results from last school year show wider variations in students’ performance than before the pandemic, pointing to the reality that in many classrooms right now, teachers are supporting a greater diversity of student academic needs, according to two recently released reports.
That variability is largely due to the test scores for lower-achieving students falling at a higher rate than the declines for high-achieving students, according to an analysis from NWEA, a nonprofit research and educational services organization. Researchers looking at pre- and post- pandemic assessment results found math and reading test scores from spring 2022 had wider variation between lower and higher testing results compared to those from spring 2019.
