Reception Baseline Assessment Pilot announced

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News Story - 27 February 2019 The national pilot of the reception baseline assessment will take place from September 2019, go live in 2020, will take around 20 minutes, and will have the following 8 indicators: mathematics tasks (45%-55%)early number early calculation (early addition/subtraction) mathematical language early understanding of shape early literacy, communication and language tasks (45%-55%)early vocabulary phonological awareness early reading early comprehension The response formats include: oral response (30–40%)pointing (25–35%)ordering or moving objects (25–35%) Schools can sign up to the pilot between 1 March and 5 April 2019. The maximum number of marks available will be 45, although some tasks may be omitted that pupils are unlikely to be successful in. Each pupil will be presented with activities which are worth at least 26 marks – any omitted tasks will score zero. It is not a test, and there will be no pass mark. Early Years providers will receive narrative feedback instead of the score. Why is reception baseline being done? The purpose of the reception baseline assessment is to provide an on-entry assessment of pupil attainment...
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How is Key Stage 2 Progress calculated?

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This series of articles will be looking at Ofsted's Inspection Data Summary Report (IDSR). In our series about the IDSR we had a look at how your school's Key Stage 2 Progress scores are shown in the IDSR in chart form, and the significance of your school's progress scores. In this article, we'll have a look at the calculation. Your pupil's Scaled Scores In May, most of your pupils take exams in Reading, Writing and Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. Their marks (also known as a "raw score") is then converted into a "scaled score" between 80 and 120, where 100 is a pass mark and 110 is a high score - the DfE decides after the exams how the scaled score conversion is to be done. For the pupils that didn't take the test, then your Teacher Assessment is converted in a Scaled Score of between 59 to 79. In 2017 and 2018, the conversion was as follows: Scaled scores P1i to P4 -...
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