What is BASE?
*Please note, this is Cambridge Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring's assessment solution for 4-5 year olds. For other age groups, take a look at ASPECTS (3-4), Cambridge Primary Insights (5-11), MidYIS (11-14), Yellis (14-16), or Alis (16-19).
Developed to complement your observations of early learning, BASE provides objective and independent information that helps you to understand what children know, what they can do when they join you and the progress they make during this crucial stage of development.
As well as supporting the Early Years Foundation Stage profile, our BASE Progress and BASE Inspection Ready packages allow you to monitor your children's progress over the year and ease the transition into Year 1.
BASE supports you to:
- Measure ‘hard to observe’ ability areas and support your own observations
- Identify individual needs and inform planning
- Recognise patterns in whole class needs
- Understand how much progress your pupils have made
- Support the partnership between school and home life.
BASE takes approximately 20 minutes to complete. The assessment focuses on specific areas that impact future learning:
- Literacy – including vocabulary acquisition, understanding reading fundamentals, phonological awareness, letter, word and pattern recognition, and comprehension
- Numeracy – including ideas about maths, quantity and spatial position, identifying numbers, counting, shape identification, problem solving, and simple arithmetic
- Communication and Language – covering areas such as listening and attention, following instructions and understanding, speaking, and interaction in conversations
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development – covering areas such as independence, self-confidence and self-awareness, concentration, managing feelings and behaviour, and making relationships.
Recommended Usage
This baseline assessment should be administered at the start of the academic year.
 Company | Business Name: Cambridge Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 1992 |
| Age Range | 5-7 |
 Features | Adaptive AssessmentBaseline AssessmentFormative AssessmentCognitive Abilities TestDigital AssessmentCurriculum-independent Assessment |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Moderate features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Available OfflineDesktop - MacDesktop - Windows |
 Set Up | Set up can take as little as a few days! |
 Training | Live OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos Our on-demand introductory webinars can be found at https://www.cem.org/events. Our Help Centre has lots of documentation and videos to help you get started: https://help.cem.org/hc/en-gb. |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support |
| Home Learning | Parent Access Our reports are able to be shared directly with parents at the discretion of the school. |
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BASE PricingPricing Plans Paid Subscription Bespoke group pricing is available upon request.  Optimised for a quick response | |
