Nursery World - Baseline providers give views on form of new assessment

The Government’s decision to bring back a baseline assessment in Reception, just two years after it was forced to scrap the previous attempt, is a controversial one (see Analysis, page 14).

However, in its response to the consultation on primary assessment, the Department for Education says it found support for the principle of a new assessment in Reception and intends to develop a new baseline as a statutory assessment, and to test and evaluate it ready for autumn 2020.

In autumn 2015, three providers piloted the previous baseline, and although it was not mandatory, just 2,000 of England’s 17,000 primary schools chose not to use it. However, the Government axed it after data between the three assessments was found not to be comparable. Hence the decision this time to use just one commercial supplier.

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