New research commissioned by the National Education Union (NEU) and carried out by University College London has exposed problems in the Government’s new Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) for assessing four-year-olds on entry to primary school, which will be rolled out this September.
It has been published on the same day as the DfE releases its own research claiming that the Reception baseline is an accurate starting point for school assessment.
The NEU-commissioned report, Research into the 2019 Pilot of Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA), combines a survey of teachers’ views with case studies of schools involved in the September 2019 pilot of Baseline.
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