Utah student test scores have started to rebound after disruptions from COVID-19 — but they continue to lag behind where they were prior to the pandemic. Here are key takeaways from the Utah Board of Education's report.
1. The pandemic had an outsized impact on reading scores and the youngest students.the biggest harm for the youngest students, who learn crucial reading skills in their first few years of school.First, second and third graders take what’s called the Acadience Reading assessment. Across all three grade levels, scores dipped in spring 2021 during the pandemic. That means fewer students tested at or above benchmark for literacy.
That’s a good indicator that the impact on first graders should hopefully be short-lived. That’s because the second graders who are now making fast progress were first graders in the 2020-21 school year that was most impacted by the pandemic, with some schools only providing online learning and many absences due to sickness.2. American Indian and Alaskan students are not displaying the same recovery.
Overall, 32.5% of students in Utah were at or above proficiency for math in 2022, up from 32.4% in spring 2021. Ninth and 10th graders in the state take the Utah Aspire Plus test. But an estimated 6 to 10% fewer opted out of the test in spring 2022 than in 2019. That makes the data difficult to compare across the years.
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