PARENTAL PERCEPTIONS OF LEARNING LOSS DURING COVID-19 SCHOOL CLOSURES IN 2020

Figures & data

TABLE 1. Number of children in each year group and their gender distribution

Year group	NS cohort		BCS cohort		Total
	N	Female	N	Female	N	Female
Reception	137	54%	31	42%	168	52%
Year 1	102	46%	41	39%	143	44%
Year 2	75	40%	65	52%	140	46%
Year 3	71	56%	70	53%	141	54%
Year 4	57	55%	109	45%	166	49%
Year 5	55	60%	143	46%	198	50%
Year 6	41	51%	209	52%	250	52%
Year 7	21	45%	205	48%	226	48%
Year 8	19	37%	259	46%	278	45%
Year 9	12	75%	316	53%	328	54%
Year 10	NA	NA	323	48%	325	48%
Year 11	NA	NA	353	51%	355	51%
Year 12	NA	NA	302	48%	303	48%
Year 13	-	-	209	49%	209	49%
Total	595	51%	2,635	49%	3,230	49%

Note: NA = Not available for low counts and to protect confidentiality.

TABLE 2. School attendance by year group during the summer term 2020

	Whole term	11–30 days	1–10 days	No attendance
Reception	8.4%	27.7%	19.3%	44.6%
Year 1	9.8%	30.1%	21.0%	39.2%
Year 2	7.9%	17.9%	21.4%	52.9%
Year 3	2.8%	15.6%	24.1%	57.4%
Year 4	1.2%	12.0%	25.3%	61.4%
Year 5	3.0%	19.7%	23.7%	53.5%
Year 6	8.8%	43.2%	22.4%	25.6%
Year 7	1.8%	4.0%	19.0%	75.2%
Year 8	2.2%	4.7%	20.0%	73.1%
Year 9	1.8%	3.7%	10.7%	83.7%
Year 10	0.6%	5.8%	63.7%	29.8%
Year 11	0.8%	4.0%	9.3%	85.8%
Year 12	1.0%	4.0%	40.1%	54.3%
Year 13	2.4%	4.6%	17.8%	77.9%
Total	3.2%	12.0%	25.0%	59.9%
N	102	388	802	1,927

Note: Reception, Year 1, Year 6, Year 10, and Year 12 were year groups permitted to return to school.

Figure 1. Time children spent in virtual lessons per day by key stage (KS) and school type

Figure 2. Time children spent doing schoolwork at home each day across year groups

Figure 3. Time parents spent home-schooling children by key stage (KS) and parent gender

TABLE 3. Multilevel regression for daily hours parents spent home-schooling (primary school children)

	B	S.E.	95% CI
Constant	1.81**	.26	1.29, 2.32
Cohort (ref: BCS)	.19	.17	−.15, .53
Mothers (ref: Fathers)	.58**	.15	.29, .88
Higher education (ref: Lower)	−.09	.15	−.39, .22
Single parent (ref: Cohabiting)	.22	.18	−.14, .58
Working hours	−.01**	.00	−.02, −.01
KS2 (ref: KS1/Reception)	−.03	.16	−.35, .29
Private school (ref: State)	.08	.24	−.39, .56
Female child (ref: Male)	.08	.13	−.18, .34

Note: Observations = 1,133, Groups = 884, **p < .001

TABLE 4. Multilevel regression for daily hours parents spent home-schooling (secondary school children)

	B	S.E.	95% CI
Constant	1.03**	.10	.83, 1.23
Mothers (ref: Fathers)	.11	.07	−.22, .04
Higher education (ref: Lower)	−.09	.06	−.22, .04
Single parent (ref: Co-habiting)	.10	.10	−.10, .31
Working hours	−.00	.00	−.01, .00
KS4 (ref: KS3)	−.38**	.07	−.52, −.24
KS5 (ref: KS3)	−.64**	.07	−.78, −.50
Private school (ref: State)	−.15	.07	−.29, .00
Female child (ref: Male)	−.03	.06	−.15, .08

Note: Observations = 1,939, Groups = 1,413; **p < .001

TABLE 5. Multilevel logistic regression for whether parents perceived their child’s academic progress to have suffered

	OR	S.E.	95% CI
Constant	7.91**	3.68	3.18, 19.68
Cohort (ref: BCS)	.92	.29	.49, 1.72
Mothers (ref: Fathers)	.64*	.13	.43, .94
Higher education (ref: Lower)	.87	.17	.59, 1.29
Year 1	1.73	.82	.68, 4.39
Years 2–5	2.79*	1.08	1.30, 5.97
Year 6	3.51*	1.66	1.38, 8.90
Years 7–9	4.79**	2.02	2.09, 10.97
Year 10	6.68**	3.18	2.63, 16.99
Year 11	1.94	.88	.80, 4.71
Year 12	3.68*	1.74	1.46, 9.28
Year 13	1.11	.55	.42, 2.92
Private school (ref: State)	.51*	.13	.30, .85
Female child (ref: Male)	.89	.14	.66, 1.19
Computer access (ref: no access)	.77	.17	.49, 1.20
Extra learning resources (ref: none)	.89	.19	.58, 1.36

Note: Observations = 3,230, Groups = 2,122; *p < .05, **p < .001.