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An overview of upcoming changes being made to primary assessment.
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Key stage 2 results show substantial increases in the number of 11-year-olds securing skills needed for secondary school compared to 2010.
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Sample test materials are available to help teachers prepare for the 2016 national curriculum tests for pupils at the end of key stages 1 and 2
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Information about the Standards and Testing Agency's email newsletters for early years providers and key stage 1 and key stage 2 schools.
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DfE has established the members of the commission on assessment without levels that will support schools following the removal of levels.
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Nick Gibb sets out plans for a commission to help improve primary school assessment and testing.
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Nick Gibb outlines the support given to schools as they move away from level descriptors.
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Eighty thousand more children than 5 years ago will start secondary school secure in reading, writing and arithmetic.
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Sample questions for the tests taken by 7-year-olds and 11-year-olds show the higher standards expected for reading, writing and arithmetic.
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Find out more about the new tests for key stage 1 and key stage 2.
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Education Minister Elizabeth Truss speaks to Reform about new freedoms for teachers over materials, assessment and professional development.
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News on a bid to improve standards in primary schools.
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On 9 November 2012, Education and Childcare Minister Elizabeth Truss announced that calculators would be banned in maths tests for 11-year-olds from 2014.
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Find out the results of tests in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school in summer 2012.
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The results of more than 16,000 schools’ key stage 2 tests – taken by 11-year-olds this May – were published today.
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The Minister of State for schools comments on statistics which show that children are struggling in core subjects.
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Schools Minister Nick Gibb announces that the Standards and Testing Agency will commence operating on Monday 3rd October.
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Nick Gibb: Improvement welcome – but more needs to be done.
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Michael Gove accepts all the recommendations of Lord Bew’s independent review of testing, assessment and accountability at the end of primary school.
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Government’s response to the review and how the recommendations will be taken forward.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government