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How Does Schooling Affect Inequality in Cognitive Skills? The View from Seasonal Comparison Research
Douglas B. Downey – Review of Educational Research, 2024
A small subset of education studies analyzes school data collected seasonally (separating the summer from the school year). At first, this work was primarily known for documenting learning loss in the summers, but scholars have since recognized that observing how inequality changes between summer and school periods provides leverage for…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Research, Learning Analytics, Cognitive Ability