BASE is a one-to-one assessment between the teacher, teaching assistant or appropriate adult and the student. Ideally, you should do it in a quiet corner, away from the rest of the class, in an environment where the student feels comfortable. A character, “Milly the Bug”, presents the assessment and asks the student questions. However, the adult is in control of the computer at all times and uses the mouse and the on-screen buttons to mark the answers the student gives as right or wrong.
The assessment is adaptive to each student, so, as it progresses, the questions gradually get more difficult. When the student starts getting them wrong, it will stop asking harder questions in that section, move onto the next section, and start again with easier questions.
The assessment doesn’t have to be carried out by the class teacher (although you will learn so much about your students if you do), and the same teacher doesn’t need to carry out all of the assessments. Each assessment takes about twenty minutes, and the results return automatically to Cambridge Insight if you complete the web-only version with the student.
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