The report, The Introduction of the Foundation Stage Profile, published last week, said LEAs, headteachers and practitioners gave it a 'positive, if cautious, welcome' overall. They also welcomed the Profile's observational assessment approach, but practitioners wanted more help in planning and organising the observations.
The 'snapshot' report looked at six LEAs to investigate how the Foundation Stage Profile was received by those with different baseline assessment traditions in the first term of its introduction. It found support for the Foundation Stage Profile to be almost universal, with only two of the 29 people interviewed hostile to its introduction, believing that no such formalised assessment of children was necessary.
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