The Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements for English, Mathematics, Science, Technology, History and Geography) (Key Stage 1) Order 1992

Determination of level of attainment by assessments: the core subjects

6.—(1) Subject to article 10 the provisions of this article regulate the application of the results of teacher and SAT assessments in order to determine a pupil’s level of attainment in each attainment target in the core subjects.

(2) (a) Where the results of the teacher assessment and the SAT assessment are the same, the level of attainment determined by those assessments shall be the pupil’s level;

(b) where the SAT does not enable achievements to be assessed in relation to any attainment target, the level of attainment determined by the teacher assessment shall be the pupil’s level; and

(c) where the results of the teacher assessment and the SAT assessment are different, subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) the level of attainment determined by the SAT assessment shall be the pupil’s level of attainment.

(3) This paragraph applies where the results of the teacher assessment and the SAT assessment are different, and the application of the level of attainment determined by the teacher assessment in accordance with article 7 would produce a different profile component level (in the case of English) or subject level (in the case of mathematics and science) from that which such an application of the level determined by the SAT assessment would produce.

(4) Where paragraph (3) applies the level of attainment determined by the teacher assessment shall, if the local education authority (in the case of a school which the authority maintain) or SEAC (in the case of a grant-maintained school) determine that it represents the more accurate assessment of the pupil’s achievements, be the pupil’s level of attainment.