The reception baseline assessment (RBA), which is being trialled in 9,400 schools from this month ahead of a national roll out in September 2020, aims to assess children's progress in primary school.
Newly released government analysis of an earlier trial of the RBA suggests that children's chances of reaching the expected standard in their Key Stage 1 assessments - which covers ages five to seven - increased when having a baseline assessment score.
This demonstrates "the baseline assessment's validity as an appropriate starting point to measure pupil progress", says a Department for Education statement on the analysis.
"The relationship between children's marks in the RBA and Key Stage 1 assessments exists across all areas - reading, writing and maths - both individually and combined," adds the statement.
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