Revisiting, Reframing and Recovering Learning Loss: An Arched Impression on Primary Education During Covid Epoch

Amidst the pandemic phase, students have not learned what they were supposed to learn in normal classroom days while many forgot the lessons taught in pre-pandemic time. As a result of the extended and unprecedented shutdown of schools, educational institutes globally happen to be in a state of unfortunate extremity with prodigious dissipation in the learning process. The present study intended to find out the aspect of learning loss of children consequential to the protracted shutdown of schools. Based on 1200 primary students, the study employs various parametric and non-parametric tests. The study found learning loss about 1.530 points with standard deviation 0.468. Further, though learning loss is not significantly evident among genders but differs regionally. Due to learning loss, numerical skill and hand writing fluency also note a marked difference in many primary classes. The study proposed recommendations for achieving universal primary education during the Covid-19 pandemic era. The study envisaged an exclusive inquiry in the domain of socio-economic literature by scanning the lifestyle patterns of an academic community in a distinct empirical approach. The outcomes delivered from the study undertaken may strive to assist in the formulation of developmental policies for the growth and betterment of future generations.