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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Neglecting students’ socio-emotional skills magnified learning losses during the pandemic: experimental evidence from Brazil
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Authors
  • Finkelfarb Lichand Guilherme Lichand
  • Julien Christen
  • Eppie Van Egeraat
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name SSRN
Number 3724386
ISSN 1556-5068
Number of Pages 64
Date 2022
Abstract Text Did the dramatic learning losses from remote learning in the context of COVID-19 stem at least partly from schools having overlooked students’ socio-emotional skills – such as their ability to self-regulate emotions, their mental models, motivation, and grit – during the emergency transition to remote learning? We study this question using a cluster-randomized control trial with 18, 256 high-school students across 87 schools in the State of Goiás, Brazil. The intervention sent behavioral nudges through text messages to students or their caregivers, targeting their socio-emotional skills during remote learning. Here we show that these messages significantly increased standardized test scores relative to the control group, preventing 7.5% of learning losses in math and 24% in Portuguese, consistent with the hypothesis that neglecting students’ socio-emotional skills magnified learning losses during the pandemic.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.2139/ssrn.3724386
Other Identification Number merlin-id:23297
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Keywords Pharmacology (medical), socio-emotional skills, remote learning, COVID-19, learning losses