England, along with the United States will participate in a pilot of the international Early Learning and Child Well-Being Study (IELS) that will assess, through tablet-based stories and games, children's social behaviour, empathy, memory and self-regulation, as well as their early skills in language, literacy and numeracy. it will also take into account family characteristics, home environment and children's individual circumstances.
A pilot of the IELS will take place in October-December this year with around 300 children in 20 schools from each participating country.
In February, Nursery World reported that the DfE had expressed an interest in taking part in a pilot of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) study, described by academics as a ‘pre-school PISA' or ’baby PISA’. It is understood that Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium rejected the 'tests', that are heavily criticised by academics as they 'apply a universal framework to all countries' and don't 'accommodate diversity'.
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