In a new article on the BERA Blog, the members of BERA’s expert panel convened to consider the viability of the baseline assessment for school accountability urge the government to think again: their current proposals are ‘not fit for purpose’ and threaten to become a wasteful and pointless exercise. 

Read the blog in full here.

The panel will publish a full ‘BERA Baseline Briefing’ statement in June 2018. The panel’s members are:

• Professor Gemma Moss, UCL Institute of Education and past president, British Educational Research Association
• Professor Harvey Goldstein, University of Bristol
• Professor Pam Sammons, University of Oxford and senior research fellow, Jesus College, Oxford
• Gwen Sinnott, education consultant and past president of the London Education Research Network
• Emeritus Professor Gordon Stobart, UCL Institute of Education.