Have primary assessments "gone rogue"?
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  • May 11, 2022
Sats 2022: Commission to probe ‘neglected’ primary assessment
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  • May 9, 2022
Sats 2022: Most school leaders want tests to be cancelled
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  • Mar 18, 2022
SNP under pressure as headteachers pan P1 tests
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  • Jan 24, 2022
Scotland: National primary tests will continue
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  • Oct 7, 2021
British Educational Research Association report on primary assessment
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Primary assessment
  • Jul 19, 2021
Pause primary tests so pupils can catch up, DfE told
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  • Apr 28, 2021
Scotland: P1 tests row - John Swinney told anger is growing
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  • Apr 26, 2021
DfE won't rule out 2021 autumn phonics check
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Phonics Primary assessment
  • Jan 11, 2021
DfE plans to manage disruption of Covid-19 on primary assessment
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  • Dec 3, 2020
'Too many tests for no good reason': what do parents really think about primary assessment?
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Primary assessment Testing
  • Jan 30, 2020
More Than A Score assessment survey
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  • Jan 23, 2020
Scrap Sats and judge schools on happiness, say parents
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  • Jan 23, 2020
Majority of parents concerned about primary school testing
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  • Jan 23, 2020
Parents 'more concerned about pupil happiness than test results'
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Primary assessment Standardised tests
  • Jan 23, 2020
Research briefing: Assessment and testing in primary education in England
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Primary assessment
  • Jan 8, 2020
Fears that new tests will damage four-year-olds ‘unfounded’
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Primary assessment
  • Nov 5, 2019
The reception baseline assessment pilot
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  • Jul 7, 2019
Was P1 testing review set up to 'give John Swinney the answers he wants'?
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  • Jun 12, 2019
‘Scant evidence of children being upset’ by P1 tests
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  • Jun 11, 2019
Controversial P1 tests to continue with modifications, Education Secretary says
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  • Jun 11, 2019
Testing of five-year-olds should continue, review says
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  • Jun 11, 2019
John Swinney to make statement on P1 assessments
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  • Jun 11, 2019
Education Secretary urged to use speech to scrap P1 tests
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  • Jun 11, 2019
Scotland: Willie Rennie challenges Education Secretary over P1 testing
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  • Jun 6, 2019
Corbyn’s promise to abolish Sats is merely a crowd pleaser | Fiona Millar
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  • May 14, 2019
Scotland: Controversial P1 tests carried out 11,500 times despite MSPs’ vote to scrap them
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  • May 12, 2019
'Keep Sats,' say ministers – but they've already made the tests a sideshow
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  • May 2, 2019
Warning that 166,000 Sats 'failures' could be turned off school
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  • Apr 30, 2019
Sats: 'Why do supporters ignore the damning evidence?'
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  • Apr 29, 2019
Education Secretary sets out the importance of testing in primary school
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Primary assessment Literacy Numeracy National testing
  • Apr 21, 2019
The Tes Podcast: Knife crime, off-rolling and primary assessment
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  • Mar 8, 2019
Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 14 December
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  • Dec 14, 2018
John Swinney hits out at Fife council for scrapping P1 tests
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  • Dec 14, 2018
Scotland: Two councils vote to end Primary 1 tests
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  • Dec 14, 2018
Fife Council to become first in Scotland to scrap controversial P1 tests
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  • Dec 13, 2018
A glimpse into the post-calculator world. Could an adult pass KS2 SATs?
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  • Dec 7, 2018
Why we need a new approach to accountability
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  • Nov 27, 2018
Almost 600 primaries investigated for cheating
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  • Nov 27, 2018
National curriculum assessments at key stage 1 and phonics screening checks in England, 2018
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  • Oct 30, 2018
Sats: KS1 reading results drop
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  • Sep 27, 2018
Kevin Pringle: Testing pupils is not the key to boosting performance
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  • Sep 23, 2018
Jane Bradley: Children just aren’t that bothered by P1 tests
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  • Sep 22, 2018
‘Deeply flawed’ P1 test won’t close attainment gap, says head
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  • Sep 22, 2018
Council leader warns against ‘political posturing’ over P1 testing opt-out
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  • Sep 22, 2018
Brian Wilson: Testing means little without resources
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  • Sep 21, 2018
Scotland: Councillors defy ministers with plan to scrap P1 tests
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  • Sep 21, 2018
Scotland: Ministers vote to end P1 testing but Swinney is not for turning
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  • Sep 20, 2018
Scotland: Testing times for Swinney
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  • Sep 20, 2018
Scotland’s Education Secretary refuses to backdown on controversial P1 tests
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  • Sep 19, 2018
John Swinney to 'proceed until apprehended' on P1 testing
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  • Sep 19, 2018
'Nothing to fear' from Scotland’s school tests says international expert
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  • Sep 19, 2018
MSPs call for 'halt' to primary tests
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  • Sep 19, 2018
Swinney urged to respect Parliament after Government defeated on P1 testing
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  • Sep 19, 2018
John Swinney urges Scots schools to continue P1 tests despite vote
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  • Sep 19, 2018
Scotland: Holyrood expected to vote against standard assessments for P1 children
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  • Sep 19, 2018
Scotland: Assessments ‘open door to school league tables’
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Primary assessment League tables Scotland
  • Sep 19, 2018
Scotland: Education Secretary urged to respect Holyrood vote on P1 tests
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  • Sep 16, 2018
Scotland: Testing time for first minister (not to mention five-year-olds) | Alex Massie
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  • Sep 14, 2018
Scotland: MSPs increase the pressure on ‘obstinate’ Sturgeon to abolish primary tests
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Primary assessment
  • Sep 11, 2018
Scotland: ‘Scrap national tests for youngest pupils’
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P1 Primary assessment
  • Sep 10, 2018
Parties unite to deal fresh blow to P1 testing plans
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P1 Primary assessment
  • Sep 10, 2018
Nicola Sturgeon hints at defying parliament on P1 tests
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  • Sep 7, 2018
Nicola Sturgeon hints at defying parliament on P1 tests
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P1 Primary assessment
  • Sep 7, 2018
John Swinney apologises for `misleading´ P1 tests letter
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  • Sep 5, 2018
Controversial school tests 'are not compulsory'
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Primary assessment Literacy Numeracy
  • Sep 5, 2018
Huge rise in ongoing Sats cheating probes
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  • Sep 4, 2018
Latest release of provisional KS2 data 2018
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  • Sep 4, 2018
Sats: Progress scores revealed for floor standards
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  • Sep 4, 2018
SATs are damaging schools
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  • Sep 3, 2018
MSPs bid to force SNP to axe primary one testing
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Primary assessment
  • Aug 29, 2018
Leader comment: Don’t throw P1 tests out with bathwater
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Primary assessment
  • Aug 29, 2018
Top civil servant sent 'misleading' letter on right of parents to opt out of P1 tests
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  • Aug 29, 2018
Shake-up for controversial primary school tests after anger from parents and teachers
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  • Aug 29, 2018
Scotland: P1 tests to be changed but not scrapped
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  • Aug 29, 2018
Parents' anxiety over school tests blamed on ‘information vacuum’
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Primary assessment
  • Aug 22, 2018
Testing policy ‘descending into chaos’ says Labour
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Primary assessment Protests Boycotts Mental health
  • Aug 16, 2018
Scotland: Parents urged to boycott primary assessments
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Primary assessment Boycotts Parents Unions Mental health
  • Aug 16, 2018
SNP under fire over education 'omnishambles' as primary school tests boycott launched
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Primary assessment Boycotts
  • Aug 15, 2018
Rising numbers pass primary Sats tests
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  • Jul 10, 2018
Proposed tests for nursery children could lead to four-year-olds being coached for exams, experts warn
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  • Jul 4, 2018
Baseline has 'dubious validity', say academics
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  • Jul 4, 2018
Five-year-olds ‘in tears’ over assessments
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Scotland Primary assessment Standardised tests
  • May 25, 2018
NAHT secures fairer accountability arrangements for infant, first, middle and junior schools
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Accountability Primary assessment Baseline assessment
  • Apr 24, 2018
Long read: Is a 'simple' baseline test for four-year-olds about to bring the fight over primary assessment to a head?
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NEU Primary assessment
  • Apr 14, 2018
How teachers plan to 'smash' primary testing
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Primary assessment Teachers DfE Unions Primary Reception Baseline assessments
  • Apr 3, 2018
Teachers vote to stop 'immoral' baseline primary assessment
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Primary assessment Unions
  • Apr 2, 2018
Primary assessments: information and resources for 2018
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Primary assessment STA
  • Jan 18, 2018
Memorandum from Ofqual on Primary assessment
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Ofqual Primary assessment Primary schools Education Select Committee
  • Dec 18, 2017
Reception baseline tests: 'Parents could boycott the trials'
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  • Dec 7, 2017
Comment on Primary Assessment
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  • Nov 30, 2017
Primary assessment: Government Response to the Committee’s Eleventh Report of Session 2016–17
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  • Nov 30, 2017
Government responds to four Committee reports
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  • Nov 30, 2017
DfE invites bids to develop and run £10m Reception baseline
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  • Nov 22, 2017
STA - ​​Primary assessment webinars
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  • Oct 24, 2017
Scotland: seven-year-old pupils to be asked how they rate lessons
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Scotland Primary assessment Education Scotland Primary schools
  • Oct 21, 2017
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (October 2017)
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NAHT SEND Primary assessment Curriculum Funding Pupil exclusions Alternative provision Unions
  • Oct 18, 2017
Policy Eye - highlights of week ending Friday 15 September 2017
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  • Sep 15, 2017
Greening announces plans for reception-age baseline checks
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  • Sep 15, 2017
DfE publishes their response to the consultation on primary assessment in England
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  • Sep 15, 2017
The Tes podcast: School funding, Sats and scripted lessons
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  • Sep 15, 2017
Changes to early years goals and Profile planned
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  • Sep 15, 2017
Early Education condemns government decision on baseline assessment
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  • Sep 14, 2017
SEND: DfE scraps P-scales for assessment of pupils working below national curriculum level
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  • Sep 14, 2017
The government is listening to school leaders’ concerns about assessment policy, says NAHT
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  • Sep 14, 2017
NASUWT comments on primary assessment proposals
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Primary assessment overhaul is good for children and schools
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ASCL Primary assessment Baseline assessment Reception SATS
  • Sep 14, 2017
Sats for seven-year-olds in England to be scrapped
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Guardian SATS Primary assessment Primary schools Multiplication School readiness
  • Sep 14, 2017
Primary assessment in England
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Greening: New “teacher-mediated” baseline tests for 4-year-olds
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Key stage 1 SATs scrapped from 2023
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Sats for seven-year-olds to be scrapped from 2023
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Too few reception pupils are ready for school, heads claim
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  • Sep 6, 2017
NAHT advises members to anticipate changes to writing assessment in September 2017
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  • Jul 18, 2017
Policy Tracker – Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in June 2017
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  • Jun 30, 2017
EPI submission to primary assessment consultation
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  • Jun 29, 2017
Primary assessment consultation 2017
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  • Jun 28, 2017
BERA response to the DfE consultation on primary assessment in England
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  • Jun 27, 2017
NUT survey: SATs having damaging consequences for both children and schools
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  • Jun 25, 2017
Northern Rocks 2017: What we learned at the annual conference
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  • Jun 25, 2017
Education experts unhappy with DfE primary testing plans
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  • Jun 23, 2017
The Queen's speech and education | Natalie Perera
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  • Jun 23, 2017
NASUWT responds to primary assessment reform plans
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  • Jun 23, 2017
Heads say baseline assessments should not be formal tests of 4-year-olds
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  • Jun 22, 2017
National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2016 (revised)
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DfE GOV.UK Assessments Primary schools Primary assessment Performance tables
  • Jun 22, 2017
We can and must do better for our primary children – ATL responds to primary assessment consultations
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  • Jun 22, 2017
Education and childcare must not be pushed down the political agenda to 'any other business'
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  • Jun 22, 2017
Final response to Primary Assessment consultation
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  • Jun 21, 2017
School leaders will welcome the dropping of grammar school plans, says NAHT
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  • Jun 21, 2017
Best starting point for measuring pupil progress is an age-appropriate, standardised baseline assessment in reception year
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NFER Progress Baseline assessment Primary schools Reception Primary assessment
  • Jun 21, 2017
Department of Education primary assessment in England government consultation: NFER response
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NFER DfE Primary assessment Reception Primary schools
  • Jun 21, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 16 June 2017
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  • Jun 16, 2017
Education and childcare must not be pushed down the political agenda to 'any other business'
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  • Jun 13, 2017
Who is Justine Greening and what has she done as Education Secretary?
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  • Jun 12, 2017
Half day briefings: Update your knowledge on assessment and school funding
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  • May 23, 2017
Can you out-Spag an 11-year-old? Try this test
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TES Primary schools Primary assessment Exams SATS
  • May 22, 2017
Draft response to Primary Assessment consultation
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Early education Primary assessment Early years EYFSP Baseline assessment
  • May 22, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 19 May 2017
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  • May 19, 2017
NAHT response to the Conservative manifesto
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  • May 18, 2017
I went to a grammar school – that doesn’t mean I have to support them | Michael Rosen
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Guardian Grammar schools Selective schools Primary assessment
  • May 17, 2017
NAHT response to the Labour manifesto
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  • May 16, 2017
Battle on the adverbials front: grammar advisers raise worries about Sats tests and teaching
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  • May 9, 2017
SEND: updates and highlights from April 2017
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  • May 8, 2017
Sats: Reading test 'kinder' than last year
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  • May 8, 2017
Three-quarters of primary leaders lack confidence in SATs, survey finds
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  • May 8, 2017
Could you answer these primary school maths questions? (video)
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BBC Primary schools Primary assessment SATS Maths
  • May 8, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 5 May 2017
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  • May 5, 2017
NFER comments on Education Committee’s Primary Assessment Report
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  • May 3, 2017
Assessing pupils not engaged in subject-specific learning
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  • May 3, 2017
Morpurgo: 'Dark spider' of Sats is bringing fear to classrooms
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  • May 2, 2017
SATs results put too much pressure on primary schools
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  • May 1, 2017
SATs are critically flawed - ATL
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  • May 1, 2017
Primary Assessment – Select Committee Report
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  • May 1, 2017
'High-stakes' testing harming teaching and learning in primary schools
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  • May 1, 2017
Primary Assessment: five warnings issued by MPs
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  • May 1, 2017
The 13 ways MPs want primary tests improved
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  • May 1, 2017
Stop judging primary schools on one year’s SATs results, say MPs
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  • May 1, 2017
Education committee right to call for an end to ‘high stakes’ assessment, says NAHT
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  • Apr 30, 2017
MPs urge 'caution' over introducing Reception baseline
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  • Apr 30, 2017
Election ‘highly likely’ to delay national funding formula, NAHT warns
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  • Apr 28, 2017
Blair’s legacy, pensions and primary testing – the Tes podcast
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  • Apr 28, 2017
Headteachers reject idea of boycotting Sats
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  • Apr 28, 2017
“Uneasy peace” breaks out as heads back proposed Sats reforms
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  • Apr 28, 2017
Primary assessment report to be published
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  • Apr 26, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 21 April 2017
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  • Apr 21, 2017
The HTRT doorstep manifesto
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  • Apr 19, 2017
Daily roundup 19 April: Football abuse, bullying and primary testing
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  • Apr 19, 2017
Teachers opt not to disrupt primary tests
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  • Apr 18, 2017
NUT will 'break' primary assessment unless Sats are changed, says Courtney
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  • Apr 18, 2017
Primary assessment consultation: The best starting point for measuring progress in primary school
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NAHT Primary schools Primary assessment Progress measures
  • Apr 18, 2017
Teachers could boycott key primary school tests amid concerns over pupil pressure
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  • Apr 17, 2017
Teachers threaten to boycott primary school tests
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  • Apr 16, 2017
NUT delegates denounce Sats, as union paves way for boycott
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  • Apr 16, 2017
Vote on boycott of primary tests postponed
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  • Apr 16, 2017
Teachers threaten boycott to kill off primary school tests: Major union votes to shun SATs exams because of fears they cause 'stress' to children
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  • Apr 13, 2017
Teachers back possible primary test boycott
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BBC Primary schools Primary assessment Teachers Boycotts SATS ATL Unions
  • Apr 12, 2017
Teachers union threatens to boycott primary school tests weeks after Government 'caved in' over Sats
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  • Apr 12, 2017
ATL votes to explore boycott of primary tests
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  • Apr 12, 2017
ATL votes overwhelmingly to 'explore' Sats boycott
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  • Apr 12, 2017
Redressing the balance - a summary
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  • Apr 10, 2017
Vast majority of primary teachers feel 'overworked' after assessment changes
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  • Apr 5, 2017
The assessment system is unsustainable: how can we make it better?
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  • Apr 4, 2017
Scrapping SATs for 7-year-olds is good news but we should get rid of them for KS2 students too
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  • Apr 1, 2017
We need to broaden the debate around primary assessment
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  • Mar 31, 2017
Ofqual unveils corporate plan 2017 to 2020
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  • Mar 31, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 31 March 2017
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  • Mar 31, 2017
Tests at age 7 scrapped to lift burden on pupils and teachers
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  • Mar 31, 2017
Ministers pave way to scrap Sats tests for seven-year-olds
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Primary assessment
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  • Mar 30, 2017
ASCL welcomes review of national tests for seven year olds
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  • Mar 30, 2017
NASUWT comments on primary assessment proposals
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  • Mar 30, 2017
The government’s assessment consultation is a step on the way to a better system
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  • Mar 30, 2017
ATL comment on primary assessment proposals
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Voice welcomes consultation on reforms to primary assessment system
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Sats: What you need to know about the government's plans to fix primary assessment
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Sats for seven-year-olds set to be scrapped
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Sats tests for seven-year-olds in England set to be scrapped
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Primary assessment consultation: The 5 key proposals
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Justine Greening criticised for 'hoisting the white flag' and 'trying to buy off' unions by axing compulsory tests for seven year olds
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Government proposes scrapping tests for 7-year-olds
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Greening proposes scrapping KS1 SATs
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  • Mar 30, 2017
'Unnecessary' national tests to be scrapped for seven year olds
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  • Mar 30, 2017
EYFS Profile and new Reception baseline included in primary assessment consultation
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Campaigners slam reception baseline plans
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Ministers pave way to scrap Sats tests for seven-year-olds
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Government consults on rehash of failed baseline assessment proposals
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Update on Primary Assessment in England
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Government to consult on reforms to primary assessment system
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Government to consider scrapping Sats tests for seven-year-olds
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  • Mar 30, 2017
Schools Minister questioned on primary assessment
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  • Feb 22, 2017
Nick Gibb: Sats 'didn't go as smoothly as we would have hoped'
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  • Feb 22, 2017
Ofqual ‘extremely cautious’ about more primary testing changes
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  • Feb 22, 2017
Schools Minister questioned on primary assessment
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  • Feb 17, 2017
Latest news from our Assessment Campaign
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  • Feb 13, 2017
Primary assessment: 5 reforms proposed by experts today
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  • Jan 18, 2017
End tests for seven-year-olds and bring back Reception baseline assessment, say heads
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  • Jan 18, 2017
Primary assessment: accountability measures and impact examined
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  • Jan 18, 2017
School leadership podcast January 2017
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  • Jan 16, 2017