Hailed as necessary to identify and measure their progress from the start of school, baseline
assessment is set to be re-introduced.
But before we abandon the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile, we should think carefully about what the re-introduction of baseline assessment will mean for children, their reception teachers, other practitioners, and parents.
First introduced in England in 1997, the baseline policy was abandoned in 2002 because it was not effective. It did not support individual children's learning and development and it did not give a measure of school effectiveness.
The re-introduction of compulsory baseline assessment in 2016 means that something known to be deeply flawed is being implemented against the best judgment of many professionals and parents.
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