Artikel ; Online: Students' intelligence test results after six and sixteen months of irregular schooling due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2023 Band 18, Heft 3, Seite(n) e0281779
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected schooling worldwide. In many places, schools closed for weeks or months, only part of the student body could be educated at any one time, or students were taught online. Previous research discloses the relevance of ... ...
| Abstract | The COVID-19 pandemic has affected schooling worldwide. In many places, schools closed for weeks or months, only part of the student body could be educated at any one time, or students were taught online. Previous research discloses the relevance of schooling for the development of cognitive abilities. We therefore compared the intelligence test performance of 424 German secondary school students in Grades 7 to 9 (42% female) tested after the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e., 2020 sample) to the results of two highly comparable student samples tested in 2002 (n = 1506) and 2012 (n = 197). The results revealed substantially and significantly lower intelligence test scores in the 2020 sample than in both the 2002 and 2012 samples. We retested the 2020 sample after another full school year of COVID-19-affected schooling in 2021. We found mean-level changes of typical magnitude, with no signs of catching up to previous cohorts or further declines in cognitive performance. Perceived stress during the pandemic did not affect changes in intelligence test results between the two measurements. |
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| Mesh-Begriff(e) | Humans ; Female ; Male ; Pandemics ; COVID-19/epidemiology ; Students/psychology ; Schools ; Intelligence Tests |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Erscheinungsdatum | 2023-03-08 |
| Erscheinungsland | United States |
| Dokumenttyp | Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
| ZDB-ID | 2267670-3 |
| ISSN | 1932-6203 ; 1932-6203 |
| ISSN (online) | 1932-6203 |
| ISSN | 1932-6203 |
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0281779 |
| Datenquelle | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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