Digital Assessment Item Validation Trial Administration STA 0166 Call Off 11

The STA's remit is to deliver national curriculum assessments for English Reading, English Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling, Science and Mathematics and the Reception Baseline Assessment for use in schools. During the development of the assessments, items are trialled in schools to ensure the quality and validity of the final live assessments.

From September 2020, it is intended that the Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) will become statutory. The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) intends to deliver the first Item Validation Trial (IVT) for the digital version of the RBA (DRBA) in November. STA needs to recruit around 120 schools in order to allow 1,200 pupils to trial the assessment. This is an assessment that is being developed in-house, so that it can replace the current supplier's product, once their contract comes to an end in August 2022.