Trusted by thousands
of schools
Backed up by over
75 years of
assessment research
Standardised with
over 60,000 pupils
Informed by over 75 years of assessment research, NFER's range of trusted, standardised, curriculum-aligned paper assessments help confidently track pupil progress and attainment across key stage 1 and 2 and provide valuable data to support teacher judgements and pupil outcomes.
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Monitor pupil progress and attainment
Inform teaching and learning plans
Identify pupil learning gaps
Generate and share reports
Why choose NFER Tests?
Our child-friendly resources offer an age-appropriate level of challenge and have been standardised with over 60,000 pupils to ensure accurate benchmarking data. NFER Tests reflect the style and format of the national curriculum tests to help build pupils' familiarity with more formal assessments.
NFER materials are developed by an in-house team of assessment specialists, many with teaching backgrounds. This team has a wealth of experience in developing assessments, both statutory and non-statutory, and this experience, alongside teacher feedback, helps ensure that NFER Tests are of the highest standard.
Thousands of schools use our standardised assessments termly to support pupil progress. To find out how schools are benefitting from the NFER Tests range and the free online analysis tool, browse our school testimonials.
The tests are age appropriate, closely linked to the national curriculum and provide a good level of challenge for the higher attaining children.
The look and style is very similar to the national tests so they are a good preparation for the children.
NFER Tests allow us to have an independent evaluation of the children, in addition to our own teacher evaluation. They give a good benchmark of attainment across the year groups.
NFER Tests provide robust comparative data, allowing us to compare pupils’ performance on an individual, class and curriculum level, and also against the performance of pupils nationally.
NFER Tests Analysis Tool
Schools that use NFER Tests will also gain free access to the NFER Tests Analysis Tool. This free online tool produces powerful reports to make monitoring pupil progress simple.
- Record all NFER Tests and national curriculum tests data in one secure area
- Instantly convert raw scores to standardised and age-standardised scores
- Produce instant reports to share with staff, parents and Ofsted
- Create custom reports by key stage, year, class and filter by pupil demographics.