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Reception baseline assessment: quality monitoring visit guidance

Guidance for quality monitors on how to conduct reception baseline assessment (RBA) quality monitoring visits, including completing the quality monitoring visit form.

From:
Standards and Testing Agency
Published
23 June 2021
Last updated
27 June 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

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Reception baseline assessment: quality monitoring visit guidance

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Reception baseline assessment: quality monitoring visit form

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This guidance provides information for quality monitors about monitoring visits for the reception baseline assessment (RBA). It also contains instructions for completing the RBA quality monitoring visit form.

Quality monitoring visits will be carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), on behalf of the Standards and Testing Agency (STA). There will be no requirement for local authorities to undertake RBA quality monitoring visits.

All quality monitors will have qualified teacher status (QTS) and significant experience of working in schools, often in leadership roles. The vast majority will have experience in early years specifically.

This guidance covers information on:

  • preparing for visits
  • what visits must cover
  • what to do when observing the assessment
  • how to record information for each visit

Updates to this page

Published 23 June 2021
Last updated 27 June 2024 + show all updates

  1. Updated guidance for 2024. Added downloadable 2024 quality monitoring visit form.

  2. Updated for the 2023 test cycle.

  3. Banner added to reference that this page is accurate but will be updated ahead of the 2022/23 academic year.

  4. Updated to confirm that NFER will carry out quality monitoring visits.

  5. First published.

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