It is also recommends that the EYFS profile assessment, carried out at the end of Reception year, be made non-statutory.
The report from the Independent Commission on Assessment in Primary Education (ICAPE), whose members include teachers, headteachers and researchers, recommends all Government testing of primary school pupils be removed, changing the focus from school and teacher league tables to children’s learning.
Based upon years of research, two separate surveys of parents and educators and the expertise of its commissioners, the report argues that current policies and practices of primary assessment are in need of ‘urgent reform’, making a number of recommendations that would overhaul the current system, including:
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