Table 2.
Descriptive statistics for children’s schooling during COVID-19
| Full sample | English monolingual | Spanish bilingual | Chinese bilingual | χ2(6) | p | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |||
| Children’s schooling during March—June 2020 | ||||||||||
| 1. How did your child currently attend school? | 9.87 | .130 | ||||||||
| Virtual | 150 | 83.8 | 69 | 87.3 | 40 | 85.1 | 41 | 77.4 | ||
| Hybrid | 5 | 2.8 | 1 | 1.3 | 2 | 4.3 | 2 | 3.8 | ||
| In person | 11 | 6.1 | 3 | 3.8 | 5 | 10.6 | 3 | 5.7 | ||
| Other (no schooling, home schooling) | 13 | 7.3 | 6 | 7.6 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 13.2 | ||
| 2. How did your child’s current primary teacher communicate with you? Select all that applya | N/A | N/A | ||||||||
| Individual email/message | 144 | 77.8 | 53 | 66.3 | 44 | 89.8 | 47 | 83.9 | ||
| Individual phone/video call | 91 | 49.5 | 32 | 40.0 | 30 | 62.5 | 29 | 51.8 | ||
| Group email/message | 168 | 90.3 | 75 | 92.6 | 43 | 89.6 | 50 | 87.7 | ||
| Group phone/video call | 84 | 45.4 | 33 | 40.7 | 29 | 60.4 | 22 | 38.6 | ||
| 3. How often did your child’s primary teacher check his or her homework? | 10.15 | .118 | ||||||||
| All the time | 22 | 12.3 | 13 | 16.0 | 4 | 8.5 | 5 | 10.2 | ||
| Most of the time | 35 | 19.6 | 16 | 19.8 | 5 | 10.6 | 14 | 28.6 | ||
| Some of the time | 46 | 25.7 | 16 | 19.8 | 16 | 34.0 | 14 | 28.6 | ||
| Does not check at all or no homework | 76 | 42.5 | 36 | 44.4 | 22 | 46.8 | 16 | 32.7 | ||
| Children’s schooling during the 2020–2021 school year | ||||||||||
| 1. How does your child currently attend school? | 9.65 | .140 | ||||||||
| Virtual | 97 | 51.6 | 40 | 50.0 | 20 | 40.0 | 37 | 63.8 | ||
| Hybrid | 38 | 20.2 | 16 | 20.0 | 12 | 24.0 | 10 | 17.2 | ||
| In person | 49 | 26.1 | 22 | 27.5 | 18 | 36.0 | 9 | 15.5 | ||
| Other (no schooling, home schooling) | 4 | 2.1 | 2 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3.4 | ||
| 2. How does your child’s current primary teacher communicate with you? Select all that applya | N/A | N/A | ||||||||
| Individual email/message | 173 | 94.0 | 70 | 89.7 | 49 | 100 | 54 | 94.7 | ||
| Individual phone/video call | 122 | 66.3 | 53 | 67.9 | 32 | 65.3 | 37 | 64.9 | ||
| Group email/message | 167 | 90.8 | 68 | 89.5 | 46 | 92.0 | 53 | 91.4 | ||
| Group phone/video call | 90 | 48.9 | 35 | 46.1 | 24 | 48.0 | 31 | 53.4 | ||
| 3. How often does your child’s primary teacher check his or her homework? | 9.17 | .164 | ||||||||
| All the time | 7 | 3.7 | 2 | 2.5 | 1 | 2.0 | 4 | 7.0 | ||
| Most of the time | 28 | 14.9 | 14 | 17.3 | 4 | 8.0 | 10 | 17.5 | ||
| Some of the time | 44 | 23.4 | 17 | 21.0 | 10 | 42.0 | 17 | 29.8 | ||
| Does not check at all or no homework | 109 | 58.0 | 48 | 59.3 | 35 | 70.0 | 26 | 45.6 | ||
aFor this question, parents may select multiple choices. Percentage values represent the number of participants selecting each choice out of the total number of participants, and therefore do not add up to 100%. Chi-square difference tests are not appropriate for this type of question, and so group differences have not been calculated