BASE for ages 4-5

(Pre-school, Kindergarten, Reception baseline assessment)

Support early learning and development

Age: 4-5 years old
Avg Duration: 20 minutes
Assessment: Adaptive, Baseline, Curriculum independent, Digital
Sections: Literacy, Numeracy, Communication & Language, and Personal Social and Emotional Development
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Assessments to empower schools

What started off as a personal small-scale research project in 1982 has developed into a whole series of assessments for schools across the world. We help you to uncover students’ baseline abilities, understand their capabilities and unlock their full potential. CEM assessments are used by education professionals in 109 countries, and over 481,000 students will be taking a CEM assessment this academic year.

What is BASE?

BASE is a reception baseline assessment designed to give you a snapshot of where your children are at as soon as they start school at age 4 or 5.

Developed to complement your own observations of early learning, BASE provides objective and independent information that helps you to understand what children know and can do when they join you, and the progress they make during this crucial stage of development.

As well as supporting the Early Years Foundation Stage profile, our BASE Progress and BASE Inspection Ready packages allow you to monitor your children's progress over the year and ease the transition into Year 1.

Why use Early Years and Reception baseline assessments?

We know there are a lot of strong opinions about putting children through formal testing at such a young age. We agree. Testing for the sake of record keeping at this age makes no sense and adds no value to learning. However, assessment with purpose can make all the difference. Browse our collection of blogs and webinars to find out more about the impact a good reception baseline assessment can have on a student’s learning.

More than just a test

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Assess

Fun and engaging storybook-style approach designed to give children valuable one-to-one time with their teacher. Flexible teacher-led assessment that can be stopped or started at any time.

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Analyse

Results are available to download within 48 hours, providing powerful insights to act upon. Quickly identify individual needs in ‘hard to observe’ ability areas. Compare development with children of a similar age.

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Plan

Use the feedback reports to plan activities and support and align resources to particular needs right from the start.

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Teach

Target resources effectively. Support observations and professional judgement with reliable data.

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Reflect

Monitor the progress of each child and cohort with an end of year follow-up assessment. Benchmark your school performance against averages and a comparison. Understand trends in cohorts over time.

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Support

Access support and guidance from your personal secure site.

"Having high quality data and information from assessment increases our knowledge of each child quickly and puts them at the heart of their learning."

Lydia Cuddy-Gibbs, Head of Early Years, Ark Schools

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How does BASE work?

Children carry out the baseline assessment during the first few weeks of starting school. This takes just 15 to 20 minutes, one-to-one with their teacher, on a laptop or computer. Through a series of fun activities and story-based questions, the assessment checks and adapts to the child’s level of ability, so it’s always engaging and offers the right amount of challenge.

Pupils’ responses are uploaded automatically, and reports are generated within 24 hours – so there is no teacher-marking, and insights that might takes weeks of teacher observations are available from the very start.

You can use the optional follow-up assessment to track your students’ progress in the last few weeks of this crucial first school year.

 

 

Ready to get started with BASE?

Reports vary depending on which option you choose. Our friendly team will be happy to help you decide which option is right for your school.

If you are an existing Primary customer with access to CEM Secure, please use the online subscription process on the CEM Secure site.

Choose from three subscription options:

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BASEline

  • BASEline
  • Core reporting
  • - Table of Scores – including scaled score for DfE reporting
  • - Question-Level Report
  • Core onboarding and training

£6.60 per student

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BASE Progress

  • Baseline assessment – Start of year
  • Progress Measure assessment – End of year
  • Personal, Social and Emotional Development – Start & End of year
  • Core reporting
  • - Table of Scores – including scaled score for DfE reporting
  • - Question-Level Report
  • Progress Measure reporting
  • - Student report
  • - Class report
  • Core onboarding and training

£13.10 per student

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BASE Inspection Ready

  • Baseline assessment – Start of year
  • Progress Measure assessment – End of year
  • Personal, Social and Emotional Development – Start & End of year
  • Core reporting
  • - Table of Scores – including scaled score for DfE reporting
  • - Question-Level Report
  • Progress Measure reporting
  • - Student report
  • - Class report
  • Parent Report
  • Interactive reports
  • - School Comparison
  • - Inspection Ready
  • Core onboarding and training

£15.00 per student

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