The Department for Education has been accused of hiding data gathered from the trial of the Reception Baseline Assessment.
In response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request from author and teacher Sue Cowley, the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) said it had applied a number of ‘redactions’ to the trialling data and is withholding the full analysis, practitioner feedback and timing data because it is information relating to the development of Government policy.
The full pilot of the Baseline starts in September, with implementation a year later.
In her request, Ms Cowley asked the DfE for the full analysis of the Reception Baseline Assessment trial that took place last September, feedback from a questionnaire sent to all schools involved in the trial, analysis of how long it took participants to perform the assessment, along with any practitioner feedback that indicated children were upset at any time during the test.
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