“Everything Just Feels So Much Harder”: Student Responses to COVID-19 from Florida’s Deep Dive Study
On September 9, 2022, the COVID-19 and Equity in Education (CEE) initiative presented their second session in the CEE Research Spotlight series. Researchers from the Lastinger Center for Learning and College of Education at the University of Florida, Dr. Mary Bratsch-Hines, Dr. Pengfei Zhao, Serena Liu, and Matthew Faiello, shared an overview of research findings from the COVID-19 Deep Dive Study in Florida.
The team collected over 5,000 surveys and conducted over 50 interviews with families, students, and educators in four school districts in Florida to contextualize their real-time educational experiences during the 2020–2021 school year. Participants responded to the team’s findings through a facilitated dialogue.
Moderators
Michael S. Garet, Ph.D.
Vice President and Institute Fellow
AIR
Susan Therriault, Ph.D.
Managing Researcher
AIR
Presenters
Pengfei Zhao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
College of Education, University of Florida
Mary Bratsch-Hines, Ph.D.
Senior Manager
Lastinger Center for Learning
Matthew Faiello
Graduate Assistant
Lastinger Center for Learning
Jinxiu Liu
Ph.D. Candidate
College of Education, University of Florida
About the Series
Starting in July 2022, this four-part summer webinar series focuses on creating a space for dialogue among researchers, education leaders, and policymakers to learn from our collective experience in the K-12 education system, specifically in the context of COVID-19 and issues related to equity.
About the COVID-19 and Equity in Education Initiative
CEE is jointly funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and AIR’s Equity Initiative. The CEE initiative is creating a broad, in-depth view of how states, districts, and their communities—especially those with higher percentages of Black and Latino students and/or students experiencing poverty—responded to the pandemic's effect on K-12 learning opportunities. The aim is to understand not just community responses to the pandemic, but how the pandemic has changed core assumptions about how the education system operates in the context of community.
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