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The establishment of the foundation stage of education in England, covering children aged 3 to 5, has had some impact on assessment, with the existing form of baseline assessment being replaced during 2002–3 by a foundation stage profile. In this article, the author provides an insight into the development of baseline assessment in Scotland. As well as describing the rationale for the assessment, she highlights some interesting early discrepancies between girls’ and boys’ performances, drawing on data presented in 1999 from piloting of the Child Record. Early years and infant teachers should find much of interest in this account. |
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| pre conference resources |
 Video clips and presentation slides from our previous pre conferences, are now available online.
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CERUKplus is the only free database of current education and children’s service research projects in the UK. CERUKplus would like to include practitioner research undertaken as part of masters degree courses or levels 3 + 4 of the Teacher Learning Academy in 2010, and would like to hear from practitioners interested in doing so. We are committed to supporting teachers and lecturers in their research work and building connections between communities of practice. |
| research engaged schools |
 The contribution of research to school improvement has been a matter of considerable debate. It is widely argued that educational practice should be more evidence based, but it is acknowledged that this is not easy to achieve. |
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