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Reception baseline
assessment
What you need to know
Introductions
Chair:
Ellie Suggate-Francis, Early Childhood Unit, NCB
STA: NFER:
Harriet Rogerson Angela Hopkins
Kathryn Dwyer
Overview of presentation
Plans for this year
Background to the RBA
Assessment development process
Pilot feedback
What happens next?
Background and history
Policy history
2017 primary assessment consultation
Timeline overview
Aims of the assessment
Age-appropriate
Giving schools credit for the first three years
To give a snapshot of where a child is - not to track or label
Progress measure
What is the progress measure?
Pupils’ results (at the end of Key stage 2) are compared to the actual achievements of other pupils
nationally with similar starting point/prior attainment
RBA will provide a new starting point for the calculation
How is this calculated?
We take the individual pupil’s key stage 2 result (for example in reading).
We compare this to the national average key stage 2 attainment for pupils with similar key stage 1
average points scores to them.
A pupils’ progress score is the difference between their actual KS2 result and the average result of
those in their prior attainment group.
The final step is to create a school level progress score. We do this by adding together the
progress scores of all the pupils in year 6 and dividing by the number of year 6 pupils in the school.
How does the assessment work?
Everything practitioners need is on the digital system
Pupil data
Training materials
The assessment itself
The child does not interact with the computer
Assessment development
Background on NFER
Development of the assessment
Continued input of experts and practitioners
Small-scale trial in September 2018
Large-scale, voluntary pilot in academic year 2019/20
Pilot feedback
Assessment data was collected for 339,477 pupils in the first half of the
autumn term 2019
Generally positive feedback
Interest and enjoyment
Good / Very good Satisfactory Poor / Very poor
Understanding of the tasks
Good / Very good Satisfactory Poor / Very poor
Pilot feedback
Clarity of awarding yes/no
Good / Very good Satisfactory Poor / Very poor
Clarity of administration instructions
Good / Very good Satisfactory Poor / Very poor
How long did it take to administer?
Less than 20 mins About 20 mins More than 20 mins
What happens next?
Taking on board feedback from the pilot
Changes to the guidance
Improving the digital system
School survey – to be completed by 3 April
Resources sent out before the end of the summer term 2020
The assessment will be statutory from autumn 2020
For more information
Visit the website
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/reception-baseline-assessment
Any Questions
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