Last week the Government announced that the commercial baseline assessment packages would not be used to measure the progress of schools in improving children’s achievement.
Now, while this is good news for many of us who have long opposed baseline assessment, it is still important to remain vigilant about what happens next. The reason the Government will not require teachers to assess four-year-olds using a commercially designed measurement instrument in their early weeks in school is because ultimately the results cannot be used to judge the performance of the school on pupil achievement. But funding is still available for schools to use the government-preferred instruments for the next school year beginning September 2016 alongside teachers’ usual observation and assessment practices.
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