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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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