High standards, not high stakes
An alternative to SATs that will transform England’s testing & school accountability system in primary education & beyond
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Primary Assessment
A new report from an expert panel convened by BERA sets out the case against the government’s proposal to use a baseline assessment test of pupils in reception to hold schools in England to account for the progress that pupils have made at the end of key stage 2.
BERA’s ongoing work looking at the way assessment works in our school system, primarily focussed on primary schools in England.
A baseline without basis: The validity and utility of the proposed reception baseline assessment in England
This report sets out the case against the government’s proposal to use a baseline assessment test of pupils in reception to hold schools in England to account for the progress that those pupils...
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High standards, not high stakes: An alternative to SATs that would transform England’s testing and school accountability system in primary education and beyond
Online registration for this event has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk #BERA_HighStandards @BERANews This webinar introduces a series of proposals, published in a new...
High standards, not high stakes
An alternative to SATs that will transform England’s testing & school accountability system in primary education & beyond
A duty of care and a duty to teach: educational priorities in response to the COVID-19 crisis
In this episode of the BERA Podcast Nick Johnson interviews Professor Gemma Moss about her latest research project "A duty of care and a duty to teach: educational priorities in response to the...
BERA joins call to cancel the introduction of Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) in the Autumn term
BERA President Dominic Wyse is one of the co-signatories to an open letter that calls upon the Government to abandon its plan to introduce the reception baseline assessment into primary schools in...
March Of The Four Year Olds
On 25th April 2019 More than a Score organised a march from Parliament Square to 10 Downing Street to hand in a petition calling for a halt to statutory tests for four-year-olds. The petition had...
DfE and NFER on baseline testing: Do they know what they do?
On 4 July 2018, the British Educational Research Association (BERA) expert panel on assessment published the report A baseline without basis (Goldstein et al 2018), in response to the Department...
Continue reading blog postA baseline without basis: The validity and utility of the proposed reception baseline assessment in England
This report sets out the case against the government’s proposal to use a baseline assessment test of pupils in reception to hold schools in England to account for the progress that those pupils...
New blog challenges the evidence on the government’s new baseline test in reception
In a new article on the BERA Blog, the members of BERA’s expert panel convened to consider the viability of the baseline assessment for school accountability urge the government to think again:...
DfE consultation on primary assessment and accountability
Over the summer of 2014, BERA decided to take the unusual step of reconvening the influential UK Assessment Reform Group, which remains highly regarded nationally and internationally. The ARG...