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What is the maximum score a student can achieve on the BASE start-of-year assessment?
We cap the BASE start-of-year (SOY) score at 200. In practice the cap isn’t applied to many students – a SOY student performing at this level is exceptional and performing considerably better than ...
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How should I carry out the BASE assessment?
We recommend that the assessment is carried out away from the rest of the class in an environment where the child feels comfortable. The assessment doesn’t have to be carried out by the class teach...
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When should I carry out our BASE assessments?
Ideally, you should carry out the Start-of-Year (SOY) assessment in September/October. We advise you to schedule the End-of- Year (EOY) assessments for June/July.Please see the dates below for 2025...
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I can’t get past the Registration Key Check page. How do I fix this?
This is sometimes caused by your firewall settings or your web browser having cookies stored that are no longer valid for the assessment. Please clear the cache and cookies on your machine using th...
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Why is the Web-only version of my assessment running so slowly?
We recommend the web-only version for schools that have a reliable, high-speed internet connection. You will typically be able to assess one student for every 1Mbps of line speed, but this can vary...
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Full PDF Coordinator guidance document for BASE
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The three BASE packages available
We offer BASE in three packages: BASEline This comes with a start-of-reception assessment of Literacy and Maths and provides a baseline score for each child. You will receive the following reports ...
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How BASE works
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 env...
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How does BASE relate to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) for emerging, expected and exceeding bands?
We did not design the BASE assessment to map directly to the Early Year Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework or profile for England. BASE does not currently include the assessment of all Early Learnin...
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Ideas+ software
What is IDEAS+? IDEAS stands for Interactive Data Exploration and Analysis Software. It allows you toexplore your ASPECTS results in more detail, for example to analyse more detailedbreakdowns of t...