An expert panel set up by the British Educational Research Association Group has issued a highly-critical report into the Government’s plans for the £10 million assessment test for Reception class pupils.
It concludes that the proposal to use the Baseline of children in Reception to hold schools to account for the progress that pupils have made at the end of Key Stage 2 is not fit-for -purpose and would be detrimental to children, parents, teachers and the wider education system.
For the report, A Baseline without Basis, the panel of academics considered whether the evidence from the assessment literature could justify such a test being used for this purpose and concluded that it would produce unreliable results and would not lead to accurate or fair comparisons between schools.
The report is intended to inform public debate by providing an account of the reasons why the proposals are flawed.
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