Levelling the playing field in assessment: an analysis of attainment gaps for widening participation, black and minority ethnic mathematics undergraduates before and after the COVID-19 lockdown

IF 1.1 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI:10.1093/teamat/hrab024

L M Shaw;M R Tranter

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Abstract

The 2019/20 Level 4 mathematics cohort at the Nottingham Trent University sat a full set of mid-year assessments in January 2020 under completely normal circumstances. However, the Covid-19 lockdown meant that their end of year assessments, along with all of their teaching and learning from March 2020 onwards, moved fully online. This has given us a unique opportunity to understand how the same cohort perform in contrasting situations. In this study we consider the issue of attainment gaps and find that the attainment gap closed in this cohort for black and minority ethnic students but that students from a lower socio-economic background may have been put at a disadvantage by the move to online teaching, learning and assessment. We use a linear mixed effect models approach to present statistical evidence to support these two claims as well as investigating the specific aspects of the move online, which may have caused these results.

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在评估中创造公平的竞争环境:对COVID-19封锁前后扩大参与，黑人和少数民族数学本科生的成就差距的分析

2020年1月，诺丁汉特伦特大学2019/20年度四级数学学生在完全正常的情况下参加了全套年中评估。然而，新冠肺炎疫情的封锁意味着他们的年终评估，以及从2020年3月起的所有教学和学习，都完全转移到了网上。这给了我们一个独特的机会来了解同一群人在不同情况下的表现。在这项研究中，我们考虑了成绩差距的问题，并发现黑人和少数民族学生的成绩差距在这一队列中缩小了，但社会经济背景较低的学生可能因转向在线教学、学习和评估而处于不利地位。我们使用线性混合效应模型方法来提供统计证据来支持这两种说法，并调查在线移动的具体方面，这可能导致了这些结果。

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Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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2.40

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期刊介绍： The journal provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences which contribute to the improvement of mathematics teaching and learning for students from upper secondary/high school level through to university first degree level. A distinctive feature of the journal is its emphasis on the applications of mathematics and mathematical modelling within the context of mathematics education world-wide. The journal"s readership consists of mathematics teachers, students, researchers and those concerned with curriculum development and assessment, indeed anyone concerned about the education of users of mathematics.