Disagreements and concerns have surrounded Reception Baseline Assessment for years, over several attempts to implement it.
Now in the middle of the third go, the temperature is rising once more, with the National Education Union releasing findings from its research carried out with teachers on the same day that the Department for Education confirmed the go-ahead along with a report claiming that RBA was an accurate measure of children’s starting points.
The NEU’s research found that around 80 per cent of teachers said that the RBA did not provide an accurate picture of children’s attainment. Worse, nearly 50 per cent said that doing the test had a negative effect on children who were just starting school.
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