The Department for Education has decided not to go ahead with including it in the new baseline because the trial showed it was not possible to measure the proposed tasks that make up the self-regulation component effectively. They also took longer on average than the other tasks for mathematics, and early literacy, communication and language.
The baseline assessment, which involves one-to-one tasks with a pupil, is intended to last around 20 minutes in total.
The move was revealed by the Standards and Testing Agency, which has published the Reception baseline assessment framework for the 2019/20 national pilot of the Reception baseline that will take place from September.
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