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National Standardised Assessments for Scotland National Report for Academic Year 2024-2025<\/p>\n

Summary of outcomes at a national level on the ‘Scottish National Standardised Assessments’ (SNSA) and \u2018Measaidhean Coitcheann N\u00e0iseanta airson Foghlam tron Gh\u00e0idhlig\u2019 (MCNG) (collectively known as NSA) in the 2024 to 2025 academic year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

What are the NSA?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In January 2016, the Scottish Government published\u202fThe National Improvement Framework for Scottish Education<\/a>\u202f(hereafter ‘the Framework’). The Framework set out the Scottish Government’s vision and priorities for Scotland’s children and young people. It was developed to support high-quality learning and teaching \u2013 the core principle of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE). Over time, it was intended that the Framework would provide a level of robust, consistent and transparent data across Scotland to extend the understanding of what works, and drive improvements across all parts of the system.<\/p>\n

To meet the aim of excellence and equity for Scottish children and young people, it was determined that gathering data on children’s progress at key points in their education, including data on differences between those from the least and most deprived areas, was essential. Improved data of this kind would support the planning of further interventions to ensure that all learners achieve as well as they can. Part of this information would be provided by\u202fSNSA\u00a0(English Medium) and\u00a0MCNG\u00a0(Gaelic Medium).<\/p>\n

The\u00a0SNSA\u00a0have been available for use in publicly funded schools in Scotland since August 2017 and\u00a0MCNG\u00a0have been available since December 2018. They are undertaken by children and young people in Primary 1, Primary 4, Primary 7 and Secondary 3 (P1, P4, P7 and S3) across Scotland, once in each school year at any point in time. Learners at P7 and S3 in Gaelic Medium Education (GME) may also undertake the\u00a0SNSAs for Reading and Writing in addition to the\u00a0MCNG\u00a0assessments in the same areas; in S3,\u00a0GME\u00a0Learners may sit their numeracy assessment through either\u00a0SNSA\u00a0or\u00a0MCNG\u00a0depending on the language in which their numeracy education is delivered. Reports to schools and teachers are available as soon as a learner completes an assessment. Additional reports are available for local authorities. The\u00a0SNSA\u00a0and\u00a0MCNG\u00a0are delivered through a single platform which is accessible in English or Gaelic.<\/p>\n

Outcomes from National Standardised Assessments provide one source of formative assessment evidence as part of a range of evidence to support teachers’ professional judgement of children’s and young people’s progress in learning. The Achievement of\u00a0CfE\u00a0Levels (ACEL) data is based on this teacher professional judgement \u2013 this data reports on the percentage of children and young people in P1, P4, P7 and S3 who achieve the expected\u00a0CfE\u00a0level in literacy and numeracy.\u00a0ACEL\u00a0data is published annually at school, local authority and national level.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0NSA:<\/p>\n