The Department for Education is currently consulting on proposals to reform the whole primary assessment system and plans to introduce a new reception baseline in addition to keeping and improving the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile.
The education select committee report on primary assessment, published today, blames the accountability system in primary schools for leading to a narrowing of the curriculum, with ’teaching to the test’, which it says also affects teacher and pupil well-being.
While the cross-party group of MPs welcomes the increased focus on progress in performance measures and supports the introduction of an improved baseline measure, it urges the Government to be cautious in introducing one.
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