According to the Department for Education (DfE), more than 9,600 primary schools have registered to take part in the pilot of the RBA – a 20-minute check that will enable schools to familiarise themselves with the assessment before providing feedback ahead of the national roll out in 2020.
The assessment which will take place in the first few weeks after a child starts Reception will replace the current Key Stage 1 tests at the end of year 2.
The news follows the release of heavily redacted data from the trial of the Reception Baseline Assessment by the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request from teacher and author Sue Cowley.
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