Coronavirus, Education Research, and Education: Relevant ÐÜèÊÓÆµJournal Articles

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Coronavirus, Education Research, and Education: Relevant ÐÜèÊÓÆµJournal Articles
 
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Coronavirus Resources

The coronavirus pandemic has swept the United States and globally, upending the personal and professional lives of millions of people, including students, educators, and education researchers. At all levels of education, instructors, institution leaders, and policy makers are facing an unprecedented challenge, trying to ensure that high quality and equitable teaching and learning continues under rapidly changing and unpredictable conditions. 

ÐÜèÊÓÆµhas developed a  resource page to give the education research community, educators, policy makers, and others open access to updates from the scholarly community and important content. Relevant AERA-published research is also available below.

ÐÜèÊÓÆµJournal Articles 
 


Covid-19
 


Elizabeth Burke Hadley, Siyu Liu, Eunsook Kim, Meaghan McKenna, Katharine Hull
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, May 2025
Researchers found that the negative impacts of COVID-19 on language and literacy emerged late and increased over time for young children but were not driven primarily by remote learning.


Megan R. Griffard, Marisa E. Marraccini, Danette Barner, Laure Sartain, Dana C. Griffin
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, May 2025
Researchers found that both types of schools were grappling with disaster educators.


Anna D. Johnson, Douglas Hummel-Price, Anne Martin, Sophie Rodosky, Diane Horm, Deborah A. Phillips
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, May 2025
Researchers found that public preschool was unrelated to state standardized test scores, grade retention, and special education status. However, for dual language learners only, public preschool attendance predicted substantial reductions in third grade (post-COVID-19) absenteeism.


Vi-Nhuan Le, Diana Schaack, Cristal Cisneros, Jolene Gregory
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, April 2025
Researchers found that pandemic-related disadvantages were observed for early math, social-emotional, and executive functioning, with the pandemic-affected cohort showing disadvantages of between 11 and 18 percentage points.


Matt S. Giani, Shruti Khandekar, Jennifer Porter
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, April 2025
Researchers found that student performance in these DE courses improved during the pandemic, suggesting that modifications the program made may have benefited student performance overall, but racial/ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities also widened during this time.


Mark Weber, Bruce D. Baker
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, March 2025
Researchers found that spending adequacy significantly and substantially predicts time spent in virtual instruction: for every $1,000 positive change in adequacy (closing a gap and/or adding to a surplus), the time spent in virtual schooling decreases 0.9 percentage points.


Ogechi N. Irondi, Hayley Weddle, Ayesha K. Hashim
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, March 2025
Researchers found that leaders formed equity visions focused on meeting students’ individual needs, which were enacted differently at the state and local levels.


Sarah Crittenden Fuller, Tom Swiderski, Camille Mikkelsen, Kevin C. Bastian
Educational Researcher, December 2024
Researchers found that each outcome worsened on average in 2020–2021, with larger changes at the high end of the absence distribution, the low end of the grade distribution, and among historically marginalized student groups.


Emily E. N. Miller, Sarah Pedersen
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, December 2024
Researchers found that increased investment in digital preparedness leading up to the pandemic was protective against decreases in test scores. However, nonmetropolitan and Appalachian areas did not experience the same benefits from their digital capacity investments compared with their metropolitan counterparts.


Brian A. Jacob
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, November 2024
Researchers found that school board elections following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic were more likely to be contested and that voter turnout in contested elections increased.


Maria V. Carbonari, Miles Davison, Michael DeArmond, Daniel Dewey, Elise Dizon-Ross, Dan Goldhaber, Ayesha K. Hashim, Thomas J. Kane, Andrew McEachin, Emily Morton, Atsuko Muroga, Tyler Patterson, Douglas O. Staiger
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, September 2024
Researchers found that the interventions failed to reach the expected number of students and had little detectable impact on students’ test scores.


Eben B. Witherspoon, Max Pardo, Kirk Walters, Rachel Garrett, Matthew Hilbert, Jennifer Ford, Lisa B. Hsin, Melissa A. Rodgers, Dionisio Garcia Piriz, Lauren Burr, Leslie Thornley
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, March 2024
Researchers report on the amount and frequency of usage of an online platform for independent practice used by 58 grade 7 math teachers from seven school districts across multiple U.S. states between August 2019 and July 2021, providing insight into instruction just prior to and during COVID-19 disruptions.


Kate L. Phillippo, Elizabeth Levine Brown, Linda Galib, Ken A. Fujimoto, Aidyn L. Iachini, Naomi Brown, Crystal Lennix, Audra Parker, Tasha M. Childs
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, April 2024
Researchers found that the demand for teachers’ wellness work was inequitably distributed across teachers, varying largely by their schools’ sociodemographic characteristics.


Emma Curchin, Sara Dahill-Brown, Lesley Lavery
Educational Researcher, March 2024
Researchers found that local leaders were more likely to have taken concrete steps if they were serving urban or suburban and predominantly Democratic communities. Most commonly, unions offered symbolic gestures of support or sought to develop their capacity to recognize and understand bias.


Christopher Redding, Tuan D. Nguyen
Educational Researcher, February 2024
Researchers found that (1) increases in teacher dissatisfaction beginning in the 2015–16 school year persisted into the 2020–21 school year, (2) levels of dissatisfaction during the pandemic were not equal across subpopulations of teachers, and (3) positive working conditions consistently predicted lower job dissatisfaction, including in the 2020–21 school year.


Kevin C. Bastian, Sarah C. Fuller
Educational Researcher, August 2023
Researchers found that educator attrition and mobility increased sharply between Fall 2020 and Fall 2022.


Beth E. Schueler, Luke C. Miller
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, July 2023
Researchers found that pre-K–12 enrollment dropped by 4% between fall 2019 and the first post-pandemic fall of 2020.


Elizabeth Burke Hadley, Siyu Liu, Eunsook Kim, Meaghan McKenna
Educational Researcher, June 2023
Researchers found that COVID-19 closures did not have significant negative impacts on pre-K children’s language and literacy skills at kindergarten entry.


Denisa Gándara, Meredith S. Billings, Paul G. Rubin, Lindsey Hammond
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, May 2023
Researchers examined how policymakers in California and Texas made decisions about funding higher education at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when policymakers faced an economic downturn


Elizabeth Bell, David Schwegman, Michael Hand, Michael DiDomenico
Educational Researcher, March 2023
Researchers found that disbursement policies varied along two dimensions: (1) whether they imposed burdens on students by requiring applications and proof of hardship and (2) whether they targeted needy students and varied the amount of aid according to need.


Alexandra Freidus, Erica O. Turner
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, November 2022
Researchers examined stakeholders’ overlapping and contested understandings of justice in public education, including claims related to how school resources are distributed, whom district policies recognize, and who is represented in policymaking.


Teresa M. Ober, Ying Cheng, Matthew F. Carter, Cheng Liu
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, June 2023
Researchers found that although students were resilient in some respects, their self-appraisal and learning appear to have been negatively affected by pandemic circumstances.


Lauren E. Decker-Woodrow, Craig A. Mason, Ji-Eun Lee, Jenny Yun-Chen Chan, Adam Sales, Allison Liu, Shihfen Tu
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, April 2023
Researchers found that hierarchical linear modeling analyses of the final analytic sample showed significantly higher posttest scores for students who used From Here to There and DragonBox 12+ compared to the Active Control condition.


Matthew J. Hirshberg, Richard J. Davidson, Simon B. Goldberg
Educational Researcher, January 2023
Researchers found that most participants reported clinically meaningful anxiety and depressive symptoms.


Thomas S. Dee, Elizabeth Huffaker, Cheryl Phillips, Eric Sagara
American Educational Research Journal, December 2022
Researchers found that offering remote-only instead of in-person instruction reduced enrollment by 1.1 percentage points.


Joseph M. Kush, Elena Badillo-Goicoechea, Rashelle J. Musci, Elizabeth A. Stuart
Educational Researcher, November 2022
Researchers found that teachers reported a greater prevalence of anxiety symptoms than did those in other professions and that remote teachers reported significantly higher levels of distress than did those teaching in person.


Kenneth Shores, Matthew P. Steinberg
Educational Researcher, October 2022
Researchers found that the amount of federal aid during the Great Recession and COVID-19 pandemic was inadequate to meet policy goals.


Kelly Rosinger, Robert Kelchen, Dominique J. Baker, Justin Ortagus, Mitchell D. Lingo
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, May 2022
Researchers found that how states approach higher education cuts has the potential to exacerbate existing inequities among racially minoritized and low-income students and historically underfunded institution types.


Lisa M. Dorner, Kelly Harris, Blake Willoughby
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, February 2022
Researchers examined how an urban elementary school and nonprofit organization worked to address challenges made visible by the COVID-19 pandemic.


Esther Michela, Joshua M. Rosenberg, Royce Kimmons, Omiya Sultana, Macy A. Burchfield, Tayla Thomas
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, February 2022
Researchers found that districts worked to build community and share time-sensitive announcements in alignment with social media crisis communication recommendations.


Anna D. Johnson, Owen N. Schochet, Sherri Castle, Diane Horm, Deborah A. Phillips
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, January 2022
Researchers found that teachers’ prepandemic executive functioning and observed classroom instructional and organizational quality—features of successful teachers during normal times—predicted more during-pandemic time remote teaching, while teacher older age and having more high-needs students was associated with less remote teaching time.


Lin Wu, Nhu Nguyen
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, January 2022
Researchers used Asian critical race theory to examine how two Southeast Asian American students faced exclusion and erasure before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and how their Southeast Asian American teacher advocated for them at a public elementary school in the Pacific Northwest.


Bradley D. Marianno, Annie A. Hemphill, Ana Paula S. Loures-Elias, Libna Garcia, Deanna Cooper, Emily Coombes
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, January 2022
Researchers found that school districts where teachers’ unions exhibit strong second face power (but not first face power) were less likely to start the school year with in-person instruction, were less likely to ever open during fall semester with in-person instruction and spent fewer weeks in in-person learning.


Lora Bartlett
Educational Researcher, January 2022


Morgan S. Polikoff, Daniel Silver, Marshall Garland, Anna Rosefsky Saavedra, Amie Rapaport, Michael Fienberg
Educational Researcher, January 2022


Erika M. Kitzmiller, Akira Drake Rodriguez
Educational Researcher, December 2021


Andrew M. Camp, Gema Zamarro
Educational Researcher, November 2021


Dora Gicheva
Educational Researcher, November 2021


Matt Grossmann, Sarah Reckhow, Katharine O. Strunk, Meg Turner
Educational Researcher, September 2021


Thomas S. Dee, Mark Murphy
Educational Researcher, August 2021


Angela Calabrese Barton, Day Greenberg, Chandler Turner, Devon Riter, Melissa Perez, Tammy Tasker, Denise Jones, Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl, Elizabeth A. Davis
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, August 2021
Researchers found that youth not only aimed to reveal the dynamic and human aspects of and relationships with data as they engage with/in the world as people who matter but also offered alternative infrastructures for counter data production and aggregation toward justice in the here and now and desired possible futures.


Baoqi Sun, Chin Ee Loh, Beth Ann O’Brien, Rita Elaine Silver
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, July 2021
Researchers found that children preferred print reading over reading digitally both before and during the lockdown, and devices were underutilized for reading purposes.


Jason A. Grissom, Lara Condon
Educational Researcher, June 2021


Drew H. Bailey, Greg J. Duncan, Richard J. Murnane, and Natalie Au Yeung
Educational Researcher, April 2021


Kate Steed Hoffman, Mariana Barragan Torres, Christine Min Wotipka
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, April 2021
Researchers found that cross-national diversity in policies is related to both internal and external country factors such as peer emulation mechanisms, income, and past pandemic experiences.


Tim Pressley
Educational Researcher, March 2021


Lucrecia Santibañez, Cassandra M. Guarino
Educational Researcher, February 2021


Kate Steed Hoffman, Mariana Barragan Torres, Christine Min Wotipka
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, January-December 2021


Julia Holzer, Marko Lüftenegger, Selma Korlat, Elisabeth PelikanKatariina Salmela-AroChristiane SpielBarbara Schober
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, January-December 2021


Ioana Literat
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, January-December 2021


Chris K. Chang-Bacon
Educational Researcher, February 2021


Rebecca J. Collie
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, January-December 2021


Oded Gurantz, Christopher Wielga 
Educational Researcher, prepublished February 2021


Cassandra R. Davis,  Jevay Grooms, Alberto Ortega, Joaquin Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba, Edward Vargas
Educational Researcher, January/February 2021


Megan Kuhfeld, James Soland, Beth Tarasawa, Angela Johnson, Erik Ruzek, Jing Liu
Educational Researcher, November 2020


Day Greenberg, Angela Calabrese Barton, Carmen Turner, Kelly Hardy, Akeya Roper, Candace Williams, Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl, Elizabeth A. Davis, Tammy Tasker
Educational Researcher, October 202o


Greg Trevors, Melissa C. Duffy
Educational Researcher, October 2020


David DeMatthews, David Knight, Pedro Reyes, Amber Benedict, Rebecca Callahan
Educational Researcher, August/September 2020

Online/Distance/Digital Learning

Overview


Jeffrey A. Greene, Nikki G. Lobczowski, Rebekah Freed, Brian M. Cartiff, Cynthia Demetriou, A. T. Panter
American Educational Research Journal, July 2019


Abbey C. Karich, Matthew K. Burns, Kathrin E. Maki 
Review of Educational Research, September 2014


Robert M. Bernard, Philip C. Abrami, Eugene Borokhovski, C. Anne Wade, Rana M. Tamim, Michael A. Surkes, Edward Clement Bethel 
Review of Educational Research, September 2009


J. D. Fletcher, Sigmund Tobias, Robert A. Wisher
Educational Researcher, March 2007


Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns, Gaea Leinhardt
Review of Educational Research, Winter 2006


Robert M. Bernard, Philip C. Abrami Yiping Lou, Evgueni Borokhovski, Anne Wade, Lori Wozney, Peter Andrew Wallet, Manon Fiset Binru Huang
Review of Educational Research, Fall 2004


Yiping Lou, Philip C. Abrami, Sylvia d’Apollonia
Review of Educational Research, Fall 2001

Impact/Efficacy/Outcomes
 


Carolyn J. Heinrich, Jennifer Darling-Aduana, Annalee Good, Huiping (Emily) Cheng
American Educational Research Journal, March 2019


Cassandra M. D. Hart, Dan Berger, Brian Jacob, Susanna Loeb, Michael Hill 
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, February 2019


Marie Hull, Katherine Duch
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, September 2018


Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Negin Dahya, Elizabeth Adelman
American Educational Research Journal, December 2017


Dermot F. Donnelly, Marcia C. Linn, Sten Ludvigsen
Review of Educational Research, December 2014


Di Xu, Shanna Smith Jaggars
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, September 2011


Rana M. Tamim, Robert M. Bernard, Eugene Borokhovski, Philip C. Abrami, Richard F. Schmid 
Review of Educational Research, March 2011

Engagement
 


Justin Paulsen, Alexander C. McCormick
Educational Researcher, January 2020


Jennifer Darling-Aduana 
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, November 2019

Math


Nicole Shechtman, Jeremy Roschelle, Mingyu Feng, Corinne Singleton 
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2019


Jeremy Roschelle, Mingyu Feng, Robert F. Murphy, Craig A. Mason 
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, October 2016


Jeremy Roschelle, Nicole Shechtman, Deborah Tatar, Stephen Hegedus, Bill Hopkins, Susan Empson, Jennifer Knudsen, Lawrence P. Gallagher
American Educational Research Journal,, 2010

Reading/Literacy


Adriana G. Bus, Susan B. Neuman, Kathleen Roskos 
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2020


Trude Hoel, Elise Seip
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2019


W. Quin Yow, Sridhar Priyashri
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2019


Tanya Christ, X. Christine Wang, Ming Ming Chiu, Ekaterina Strekalova-Hughes 
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2019
 


Gabrielle A. Strouse, Lisa A. Newland, Daniel J. Mourlam 
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2019


Stephanie M. Reich, Joanna C. Yau, Ying Xu, Tallin Muskat, Jessica Uvalle, Daniela Cannata
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2019


James S. Kim, Catherine A. Asher, Mary Burkhauser, Laura Mesite, Diana Leyva 
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2019
  


Amanda P. Goodwin, Sun-Joo Cho, Dan Reynolds, Katherine Brady, Jorge Salas 
American Educational Research Journal, 2019
 


Byeong-Young Cho, Lindsay Woodward, Dan Li, Wendy Barlow
American Educational Research Journal, 2017
 


Zsofia K. Takacs, Elise K. Swart, Adriana G. Bus 
Review of Educational Research, 2015


Kathy Ann Mills
Review of Educational Research, 2010

Games


Americo N. Amorim, Lieny Jeon, Yolanda Abel, Eduardo F. Felisberto, Leopoldo N. F. Barbosa, Natália Martins Dias
Educational Researcher, 2020


Adi Elimelech, Dorit Aram
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2019


Douglas B. Clark, Emily E. Tanner-Smith, Stephen S. Killingsworth 
Review of Educational Research, 2016

Equity in and Access to Online Learning/Technology 


June Ahn, Austin Beck, John Rice, Michelle Foster 
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2016


Patricia Burch, Annalee Good, Carolyn Heinrich 
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis2016


Justin Reich, Richard Murnane, John Willett 
Educational Researcher, 2012


Mark Warschauer, Tina Matuchniak
Review of Educational Research, 2010


Yong Zhao, Kenneth A. Frank 
American Educational Research Journal, 2003


Daniel T. Hickey, Ann C. H. Kindfield, Paul Horwitz, Mary Ann T. Christie
American Educational Research Journal, 2003


Larry Cuban, Heather Kirkpatrick, Craig Peck
American Educational Research Journal, 2001
 

Online Teaching/Professional Development


Julie Cohen, Vivian Wong, Anandita Krishnamachari, Rebekah Berlin 
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, February 2020


Margaret R. Blanchard, Catherine E. LePrevost, A. Dell Tolin, Kristie S. Gutierrez 
Educational Researcher, April 2016


Peter Aubusson, Paul Burke, Sandy Schuck, Matthew Kearney, Bart Frischknecht 
Educational Researcher, June 2014


Norm Friesen
Educational Researcher, April 2011


Kimberly A. Lawless, James W. Pellegrino
Review of Educational Research, December 2007


Mary K. Tallent-Runnels, Julie A. Thomas, William Y. Lan, Sandi Cooper, Terence C. Ahern, Shana M. Shaw, Xiaoming Liu
Review of Educational Research, Spring 2006


Raven McCrory Wallace
American Educational Research Journal, Summer 2004


Barbara Means, Jeremy Roschelle, William Penuel, Nora Sabelli, Geneva Haertel 
Review of Research in Education, January 2003


Mark Windschitl, Kurt Sahl
American Educational Research Journal, Spring 2002

Online Bullying


Joseph H. Gardella, Benjamin W. Fisher, Abbie R. Teurbe-Tolon
Review of Educational Research, January 2017

Trauma-Informed Practices


M. Shelley Thomas, Shantel Crosby, Judi Vanderhaar
Review of Research in Education, May 2019


Amanda L. Sullivan, Gregory R. Simonson
Review of Educational Research, June 2016


Elizabeth Dutro, Andrea C. Bien
American Educational Research Journal, February 2014

School Budget Cuts


Kenneth Shores, Matthew P. Steinberg
ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, September 2019