Pre-school Education: Assessments

(asked on 28th May 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the evidential basis is of her Department's assessment that testing of four year olds is beneficial to a child's education and development.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 4th June 2015

All schools currently do some form of assessment of pupils on entry to school to support planning of teaching.

The optional reception baseline assessment which was announced in March 2014 is intended to form part of this broader assessment.

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