Standards and Testing Agency · production
Reception Baseline Assessment Routing
"Rules applied to the Reception Baseline Assessment which help prevent pupils from being presented with too many questions with which they are unlikely to be successful."
Publicly known
- Owner: Standards and Testing Agency
- Vendor: Made Tech - (no Longer contracted), NFER
Undisclosed
- Model architecture
- Model performance benchmarks
- Training data provenance
Who is actually being paid
Supplier arrangement · described jointly for all 2 suppliers
Role
NFER have a contract with the Standards and Testing Agency to support the delivery of primary assessments from the 2021 to 2024 academic year. The forms are currently on their system for schools to access and they have implemented the rules engine. Made Tech currently have a contract with the Standards and Testing Agency to support the delivery of primary assessments from the 2025 to 2029 academic year. The forms are currently available in the system for schools to access and they have implemented the rules engine.
Procurement procedure
call-off from a framework
Data access terms
NFER/Made Tech act as a Data Processor under contract to STA, they have access to the data from the reception baseline assessment systems and can only use it for the activities they are agreed to carry out on STA’s behalf as part of their contract.
Made Tech - (no Longer contracted)
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Registered as MADE TECH LIMITED · Active · incorporated 2008
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Registered as NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH IN ENGLAND AND WALES(THE) · Active · incorporated 1967
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