Pandemic Learning: Technical Materials for Teacher Survey and Discussion Groups with Public K-12 School Principals, Teachers, and Parents
Fast Facts
We looked at pandemic-related K-12 education issues as part of GAO's work on the effects of COVID-19.
Our reports discuss the results of our national survey of K-12 public school teachers and our discussion groups with teachers, principals, and parents. We asked for their perspectives on how the pandemic affected their students during the 2020-21 school year.
This product provides a technical discussion of how we performed this work, and the results of the teacher survey.
Highlights
This supplement is a companion to GAO's report entitled, "Pandemic Learning: As Students Struggled to Learn, Teachers Reported Few Strategies as Particularly Helpful to Mitigate Learning Loss," GAO-22-104487, as well as two forthcoming reports on pandemic learning. This supplement provides detailed information about GAO's objectives, scope, and methodology on those three reports, including a nationally representative survey of K-12 public school teachers, and discussion groups with principals, teachers, and parents.
Supplemental Material
This supplement is a companion to GAO's report entitled, "Pandemic Learning: As Students Struggled to Learn, Teachers Reported Few Strategies as Particularly Helpful to Mitigate Learning Loss," GAO-22-104487, as well as two forthcoming reports on pandemic learning. This supplement provides detailed information about GAO's objectives, scope, and methodology on those three reports, including a nationally representative survey of K-12 public school teachers, and discussion groups with principals, teachers, and parents.