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New blog challenges the evidence on the government’s new baseline test in reception
In a new article on the ºÚÁÏÍø911 Blog, the members of ºÚÁÏÍø911’s expert panel convened to consider the viability of the baseline assessment for school accountability urge the government to think again: their current proposals are ‘not fit for purpose’ and threaten to become a wasteful and pointless exercise.Â
Read the blog in full here.
The panel will publish a full ‘ºÚÁÏÍø911 Baseline Briefing’ statement in June 2018. The panel’s members are:
- Professor Gemma Moss, UCL Institute of Education and past president, British Educational Research Association
- Professor Harvey Goldstein, University of Bristol
- Professor Pam Sammons, University of Oxford and senior research fellow, Jesus College, Oxford
- Gwen Sinnott, education consultant and past president of the London Education Research Network
- Emeritus Professor Gordon Stobart, UCL Institute of Education.