Matt Easterbrook
- Feb 5
- 3 min
School provisions and their association with pupils’ home learning and parents’ stress
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Research Reports
Education in the time of Corona: Home learning study
Education in the time of Corona: Home Learning Study is a survey for teachers and parents of school-aged pupils in the UK. It aims to increase our understanding of home learning provisions, material, and support that schools offered during the school closures, and what parents and teachers think about them. It also aims to uncover and understand inequalities in home learning between different groups of pupils, families, and schools.
We are currently analysing the data and reporting our findings by topic area as soon as they become available (see below). These analyses are helping us to piece together the jigsaw of home learning inequalities. Once we have a clearer overall understanding of the picture, we will also publish targeted reports on the study's key focus points.
How to navigate this page:
Our analyses have been split into a number of key questions (e.g. How much time did children spend home learning?), each of which has a short report dedicated to it. You can click on the links below to view the background for the whole study and reports for each research question.
So far, we have published reports on the following topics:
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Inequalities in time spent home learning
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Inequalities in the amount of materials provided by the schools that pupils used
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Inequalities in pupil engagement
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Inequalities in pupil motivation
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Inequalities in how difficult pupils found home learning, and some reasons why
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Inequalities in the home learning provisions provided by different types of schools
Click on the relevant post, below, to read the executive summaries and access the reports.
You can also read about our work in the media by following the links below:
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Independent: Lack of food makes home schooling harder, say one in five struggling families
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This is Money: One in five struggling families say lack of food makes home-learning hard - poll
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Huff Post: Pictures Of 'Disgraceful' Free School Meals Prompt Investigation
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Children & Young People Now: DFE LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION OVER ‘WOEFULLY INADEQUATE’ FREE SCHOOL MEALS PARCELS
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Education Technology: Disadvantaged students struggle with e-learning due to lack of food, new report reveals
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Education Technology: Reduce educational materials, increase pastoral care to reduce e-learning stress, say psychologists
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The London Economic: As FSM row grows, disadvantaged parents say lack of food makes home-learning harder
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Yahoo! News: Pictures Of 'Disgraceful' Free School Meals Prompt Investigation
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Oxford Mail: One in five struggling families say lack of food makes home-learning hard – poll
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Basildon Standard: 300,000 more laptops and tablets for disadvantaged pupils, Government announces
Funding
We are extremely grateful to the European Association of Social Psychology for providing the initial funding for this project, and to the University of Sussex’s Higher Education Innovation Fund for continued support.
