Something called NFER testing goes on each yr at DCs school. Parents are never given the results and we're told that these are purely a basline test to see where the children are at at the start of each year. However, from what I now glena, these are some kind of IQ test in English and Maths and possibly verbal reasoning skills. The results also seem to form the basis of opinions about the children, although the staff insist that they don't.
Can anyone tell me what these tests are and what they mean? Are they really an indication of underlying ability or simply a snapshot of at what level that child is currently performing.
In the course of a meeting at school today, I found out that DS1 didn't do well at all in those tests last yr nor this and yet the school 'line' on this is that they don't mean anything and not to worry.