Primary

Teaching mathematics in primary schools...

STA - Information about the development of an assessment for pupils in reception to measure their progress in primary schools from 2020. DfE - New measure for fairer recording of primary school performance....

DfE - National curriculum assessments and review outcomes at key stage 2, including measures of progress between key stages 1 and 2....

DfE - Statistics on national curriculum assessments at key stage 1 and phonics screening check results....

Reception baseline assessment validity report...

DfE - Ready reckoners to calculate progress scores for pupils and schools and key stage 2 transition matrices by key stage 1 prior attainment....

Relationship between reception baseline assessment and KS1 attainment...

School heads criticise new reception tests for five-year-olds...

DfE/STA - Provisional test review data for the 2018 key stage 2 national curriculum tests....

Changes to assessments in primary schools...

Ofqual - The focus of this paper is on large-scale, primarily summative assessments of writing at the end of primary/elementary education....

DfE - Revised information on the 2018 key stage 2 assessments and statistics on the performance of state-funded schools in multi-academy trusts. See also Primary school performance tables: 2018. ....

DfE - These statistics cover the attainment of pupils in the 2018 phonics screening check and key stage 1 national curriculum teacher assessments (TA)....

DfE - Achievements of pupils in each state-funded primary school in England. See also Key stage 2 and multi-academy trust performance, 2018 (revised). TES - More than 350 primaries below Sats floor target. BBC News - Primary school tables: Poor pupils won't catch up for 50 years. The...

STA - Report detailing the maladministration allegations reported to the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) throughout the 2017 test cycle....

DfE - Pupils with multiple and complex needs will be assessed using a new ‘aspects of engagement’ approach. See also 7 aspects of engagement pilot: qualitative evaluation....

STA - This evaluation report was produced by IFF Research, working in partnership with Dr. Debs Robinson (University of Derby).  It looks at the use of the 7 aspects of engagement as a summative assessment tool at the end of key...

STA - Information for primary schools and other interested parties about the development of an online times tables check to be administered by schools to year 4 pupils from the 2019/20 academic year onwards (updated 1 April 2019). STA - Multiplication tables check...

DfE/STA - Provisional 2018 key stage 2 results for pupils in schools in England at national, regional and local authority level....

British Educational Research Association (BERA) - This report sets out the case against the government’s proposal to use a baseline assessment test of pupils in reception to hold schools in England to account for the progress that pupils have made at...

STA - Key stage 2 comparative report template....

DfE/STA - Provisional statistics for 2018 national curriculum assessments at key stage 2....

STA - Information leaflet about the key stage 2 national curriculum assessment results (often referred to as SATs)....

STA - Information leaflet for schools about the new reception baseline assessment....

Ofqual - an observational study of local authority moderation of key stage 2 writing assessments in 2017.  It identifies factors that may have affected the consistency of moderation in 2017 and sets out the steps being taken by the Standards and...