Years 2 To 9, Every Single Year: Wales Scrapped SATs, Not Testing

Every staffroom in England knows that Wales got rid of SATs, and most of them assume that means Wales gave up on knowing anything. It didn't. Welsh children sit a national reading assessment and a national numeracy assessment every year from Year 2 to Year 9 — adaptive, online, and with no assessment window at all, because timing is at the school's discretion. What Wales stopped was not the test.

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