On 6th June 2018, the DfE released information about the introduction of the new reception baseline assessment in autumn 2020.
Why is the reception baseline assessment being introduced?
The new assessment will provide a snapshot of where pupils begin when they arrive at school, which will then be used to measure the progress they make by the end of Year 6.
What are your thoughts on the reception baseline assessment?
Following the DfE’s announcement on 11th April 2018 that a new statutory baseline assessment will be introduced in autumn 2020, we collated some initial thoughts about the announcement.
Thanks to James Pembroke and Michael Tidd for sharing their views on this. You can join in the conversation on Twitter @RSAssessment.
In response to the 2017 ‘Primary assessment in England government consultation’, on 11th April 2018 the DfE announced the introduction of a new statutory reception baseline assessment in autumn 2020.
New baseline assessments to be introduced from autumn 2020
The test will be administered by schools as soon as children enter reception and will enable schools to measure children’s progress from reception through to KS2. The DfE will publish the results of these measures for all through primaries in the summer of 2027.
The Department for Education has published the results of a study that compares the three reception baseline assessments used by schools this academic year. The study concludes that the 3 different assessments are not sufficiently comparable and therefore cannot be used as a starting point from which to measure pupils’ progress.