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Learning attitudes are rooted in the support that students receive from teachers and families. Different forms of support can be incentivised and shaped by effective policy intervention, generally, but even more so in the extraordinary circumstances related to the COVID pandemic. Therefore, it is important to understand which are the most suitable forms of support that teachers and families can embrace to sustain the digital learning process of children.
Estimates are reported at the OECD average. Figure 4 shows that students display more positive attitudes and dispositions towards learning when they benefit from more parental emotional support.
The importance of teacher enthusiasm as a driving factor of student learning has been shown extensively in the literature: for instance, enthusiastic teachers help instill in their students positive subject-related affective experiences and a sense of the personal importance of the subject Keller et al.
This evidence, based on PISA , shows that several forms of support can be particularly effective in enhancing student learning. For example, among high ICT users, pupils who receive very high emotional support from parents or whose teachers are more predisposed to support them and stimulate their reading tend to perform significantly better in all subjects assessed in PISA.
Parental emotional support is particularly effective: for instance, in the Slovak Republic, students who use ICT very often and who receive very high support from families score on average 23 points more than their peers with less support from families.
Receiving strong emotional support from parents is similarly effective in some other countries, such as Austria and Slovenia. Bars represent the difference in reading test scores between students in the top vs bottom quartiles of support from families and teachers OECD average.
Separate regressions are estimated for each type of support, while controlling for the continuous indices of the others. This evidence suggests that parents can play a crucial role during home schooling such as ensuring that their children follow the curriculum and supporting their children emotionally to sustain their motivation and ambitious goals in a situation where they might easily be discouraged from learning autonomously, also due to the lack of peer effects.
Parental involvement during this phase could significantly help students to address the main challenges posed by online learning, spurring their active and autonomous learning. For example, differences in educational levels of parents might give rise to further inequalities in educational attainments and this should therefore be of great concern for policy-makers. A recent study from the Netherlands shows, for instance, that less educated parents have been less supportive of their children efforts during the lockdown and that this has been partly driven by the fact that they were feeling less capable to help them Bol, [30].
Another concern is that gender differences in math attitudes and achievements can be worsened during home schooling, when many children are supported mainly by their mothers in their schoolwork Del Boca et al.
What is known is that many women have high levels of mathematics anxiety and previous research indicates that girls may be especially sensitive to internalising mathematics anxiety when exposed to it from female adult figures Beilock et al. It is therefore crucial for governments and schools to take immediate actions in order to tackle these issues and foster parental involvement.
Together with families, teachers play a fundamental role in helping students to make a more beneficial use of digital learning. In particular, the most effective practices relate to how teachers stimulate reading in students e. To give an example, in Australia, among students that rely extensively on ICT for schoolwork, those whose teachers are more able to stimulate their reading score on average 17 points more than their peers with lower support from teachers.
Similar results are observed for some other countries, such as Australia and Switzerland. Some countries have already implemented policies in this direction. These are discussed in the next section. It is therefore important for governments to facilitate their effective engagement. Finding effective ways for working parents to provide childcare and support to their children in schoolwork while combining their jobs obligations is an important challenge that many governments are attempting to address.
Most OECD countries have already put in place interventions in this direction by extending, for instance, family leave opportunities. In the United States, according to the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, parents with children under 18 years of age whose school has closed are entitled to up to 12 weeks paid family leave, paid at two-thirds of earnings, up to a limit of USD per day and USD 12 over the duration.
Other countries have put in place similar provisions — e. For example, Wide Open School, a web platform created in the United States, offers resources for educators and families for students from preschool to upper secondary education. Kindly participate in this short survey and provide your details. All details will be kept confidential and is for the use of Stats SA only. What information do you want to receive from Stats SA and how often?
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