Research published today by UCL institute of Education (Friday) for the National Union of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers is hugely critical of the baseline and calls for the Government to withdraw it.
Although not mandatory, just 2,000 of England's 17,000 primary schools chose not to use the baseline when it was introduced in September last year.
Early Excellence, which runs the baseline chosen by the large majority of primary schools, said that the report was part of the unions’ campaign against testing young children.
More than 30,000 practitioners and 12,000 of England’s 17,000 primary schools have used Early Excellence's baseline assessment, EExBA.
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