The Independent Commission on Assessment in Primary Education (ICAPE) recommends that Year 6 SATs should be phased out while other high stakes assessments including Reception Baseline, the Phonics Screening Check, and the Multiplication Tables Check should be removed immediately, in a report published today.
The Commission, co-chaired by Professors Alice Bradbury and Dominic Wyse from IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, concludes that the policies and practices of primary assessment are in urgent need of reform.
ICAPE was launched in May 2022 to review the role of assessment in primary schools and consider a new approach. Funded by the National Education Union, it took evidence from headteachers, teachers and researchers working in the field.
