OCCASIONAL PAPER 8 - Reception Baseline Assessment

Dr Guy Roberts-Holmes and Dr Alice Bradbury

This very topical new Occasional Paper critically analyses the policy context and implementation of Reception Baseline Assessment. The paper reports on a national research sample of Reception staff and parents who stated that Baseline Assessment is a flawed, inappropriate and unethical means of assessing young children. The paper concludes by suggesting that BA can be understood not only as an accountability and governance measure but also as producing new forms of commercialised digital knowledges about young children and their families.

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