The BASE main assessment has a duration of 20-25 minutes and includes the following modules:
- Early Literacy – including vocabulary acquisition, understanding reading fundamentals, phonological awareness, letter, word and pattern recognition and comprehension.
- Early Numeracy – including ideas about maths, quantity and spatial position, identifying numbers, counting, shape identification, problem solving and simple arithmetic.
The following are optional modules for schools using the BASE Progress and BASE Inspection Ready packages:
- Communication and Language – covering areas such as listening and attention, following instructions and understanding, speaking and interaction in conversations.
- Personal Social and Emotional Development - covering areas such as independence, self-confidence and self-awareness, concentration, managing feelings and behaviour and making relationships.
The sections of the main BASE assessment are as follows:
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SECTION |
WHAT THE CHILD IS ASKED TO DO |
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Matching |
The child will see Milly holding a card that has a shape, or a pattern of shapes on it. The child has to point to the matching card of the 4 offered. |
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Concepts about Print |
The child is asked questions about their understanding of the first concepts of reading, such as pointing to a word, a capital letter or a full-stop. |
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Repeating Words |
The child is asked to repeat out loud the names of some of the animals in the story. |
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Vocabulary |
The child is asked to point to various objects in a picture, such as a flower or a window. |
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Letter Recognition |
The child is presented with a letter of the alphabet in either upper or lower case and is asked either to give the name (grapheme) or the sound (phoneme) of the letter. |
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Word Recognition |
The child is asked to point to simple words, such as “dog” or “pin”. |
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Reading |
The child is asked to read a number of sentences. The adult marks each word the child reads correctly. |
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The Big Tree |
The child is asked to select the appropriate one of three words to fit into a sentence. |
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Shapes |
The child is asked to point to various shapes including a square and a triangle. |
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Counting and Numerosity |
The child is asked to count the number of spots on the back of a bug. |
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Numbers |
The child is presented with a single digit number and is asked to name it. More single digit numbers follow, and subsequently two digit, three digit and four digit numbers. |
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Understanding Quantity and Spatial Position |
The child is asked questions relating to relative size and position such as “which bug is on the highest leaf?” |
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Numeracy |
The child is asked simple addition and subtraction questions, followed by more complex maths questions. |
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Communication |
This part of the assessment is carried out in the classroom and is a tick-list relying on observation of the child’s communication skills and interactions with other children. |
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PSED |
This assessment is carried out in the classroom and uses a five point scale to record the various aspects of the pupil under the headings:
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