Bedrock Reading Test | Now Available!
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Created by experts in reading and assessment
“I've just scheduled reading tests for my entire Year 7 cohort. It's taken me four minutes. That's amazing and so much quicker than we'd ever be able to sort it with our previous assessment software.”
Kings Langley School , Assistant Head
“There are so many sub-skills to reading. There's inference, there's retrieval. You've got text complexity, you've got lexicon-grammatical complexity. There are different text types and argument structures. We've worked to break these down so they can each be assessed to give a truly detailed and accurate picture of every learner.”
Martine Holland , Former Head of Assessment at Bedrock Learning
“The ultimate goal of reading is for comprehension, so that we can read for enjoyment and to learn. Reading comprehension needs will present a barrier to learning so it is crucial that we use robust assessment approaches that allow us to identify reading comprehension needs.”
Jessie Ricketts , Professor, Royal Holloway University of London, Reading & Language Development
“I'm so excited. This is a serious reading test. One of the things that sold it to me was the deep thought that's gone into making sure the reading test framework supports reading requirements across different exam boards.”
Harris Federation, London , Trust Secondary Director
“Assessing reading is an incredibly complex process. To be able to break the process of reading down into its constituent parts, and assess them, is obviously challenging... and that's exactly why we are investing in supporting teachers to answer this question in their classrooms.”
Olivia Sumpter , Dir. of Education at Bedrock Learning, ex-Head of English
“The Bedrock reading test is excellent. We use it across all our schools and it forms a key part of our diagnostic process. Our reading programme is having enormous impact on our young people - we taught 251 students to read across our three secondary schools last year - that’s 251 young people who had never learned at primary school and who will now have doors opened to them like never before. Bedrock Learning continues to be a big part of our journey.”
Carlton Academy Trust , Jennifer Webb, Director of English and Literacy
“We found the test process very clear and accessible to use and the information received at the end of the tests was extremely valuable.”
Coopers School , Literacy Coordinator