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FS Profile assessments point to future success
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
24 June 2008
Clear evidence has emerged that shows that children who do well in assessments at the age of five are more likely to go on to continue to achieve in primary school.
However, those children who achieve the lowest scores at the end of the Reception year are six times more likely to stay as low achievers at the age of seven than their peers. An analysis carried out by the DCSF, compared the results of a 10% sample (around 48,000 children) of Foundation Stage Profile assessments in 2005 and Key Stage 1 in 2007 and found that there was a...
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