MALDEN (CBS) – MCAS results from the 2021 spring exam were released Tuesday and they show an expected learning gap due to the disruption from the pandemic.
“Results show that many more students had gaps in their knowledge of math and, to a lesser extent, English language arts, compared to students in the same grades before the COVID-19 pandemic, and fewer students meet or exceeded grade level expectations,” the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) said in a statement.
READ MORE: Former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison“The results showed exactly what I think all of us believed we would see,” Gov. Charlie Baker said Tuesday of the learning loss. “I think we all have a lot of work to do there.”
In the 10th grade math exam, 52 percent of students scored “Meeting Expectations or higher,” which is a drop from 59 percent in 2019, the last time the MCAS was given. It was canceled in 2020.
However, the 10th grade English language arts test showed slight improvement with 64 percent of students at “Meeting Expectations or higher” up from 61 percent in 2019.
In grades 3-8, there were drops in both English and math.
In the 2021 exam, 46 percent of those students scored “Meeting Expectations or higher” in English, a drop from 52 percent in 2019.
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The decline was much worse in math, where only 33 percent reached “Meeting Expectations or higher” in 2021. That’s a 16 percent drop from 49 percent in 2019.
“The results clearly illustrate how the disrupted school year of remote and hybrid learning impacted students’ academic achievement,” Secretary of Education James Peyser said in a statement Tuesday.
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Parents will get their child’s MCAS scores after September 30.
“Families of students who were in grades 3-8 in the spring should keep in mind that those students were given shorter than usual tests, which can cause individual student performance to vary more than usual as compared to previous years,” DESE said in its’ statement.
Assessment results will be posted here and here.
On Monday, some lawmakers demanded the Legislature eliminate MCAS as a graduation requirement. The governor disagrees.
“I continue to believe the MCAS exam is a fundamental part of how we diagnose how we’re doing and how we keep track of how kids are doing generally,” Baker said at an event in Lowell Tuesday.
“I would argue never has the MCAS been more important to families because they’re going to want to know what happened to their kids during the pandemic and they’re going to want to know in the coming years have they improved or not and what does that look like?, Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeff Riley said at DESE’s board meeting Tuesday.
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