在美国风发生后,考试成绩出现中断
Gabriella Y Meltzer1, G Brooke Anderson2, Xicheng Xie3
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America.
Environmental research, health : ERH
|March 4, 2025
概括
风对学生的考试成绩的影响因州而异. 佛罗里达州的情况有所改善,北卡罗来纳州的情况有所下降,这凸显了为脆弱学生做好灾难准备的必要性.
科学领域:
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 教育政策 教育政策
- 灾害管理 灾害管理
背景情况:
- 像风这样的气候相关灾害对包括教育在内的社会功能构成重大威胁.
- 了解极端天气事件对学业成绩的长期影响对于有效的灾害应对和减轻战略至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查暴露于风级热带气旋和美国小学和中学学生的教育成就之间的联系.
- 分析风暴露如何影响县级数学和阅读/语言艺术 (RLAs) 的标准化考试成绩.
主要方法:
- 利用贝叶斯的层次线性模型来评估风暴露 (持续最大风速64节) 和长期测试成绩之间的关系.
- 分析了2008/2009-2017/2018学年美国受影响地区的县级标准化测试平均分数.
- 在县和年级队列层面考虑了时间变化的共变量.
主要成果:
- 佛罗里达州:风暴露的县在数学 (β=0.14) 和RLA (β=0.11) 评分上有所改善,与该州的未暴露地区相比.
- 北卡罗来纳州:风暴露的县表现较差的数学成绩 (β=-0.16) 相对于该州的其他地区.
- 社会经济和种族因素影响了测试成绩,而不管风暴露,弱势群体得分较低,亚裔学生/受过高等教育的县得分更高.
结论:
- 风对教育成绩的影响因地区和州而异.
- 灾难准备计划必须优先考虑面临气候相关压力因素的弱势学生群体的学术性.
- 需要进一步的研究,以了解驱动这些差异性影响的机制,并开发有针对性的干预措施.
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