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National Standardised Assessments for Scotland: national report 2024-2025

Summary of outcomes at a national level on the 'Scottish National Standardised Assessments' (SNSA) and ‘Measaidhean Coitcheann Nàiseanta airson Foghlam tron Ghàidhlig’ (MCNG) (collectively known as NSA) in the 2024 to 2025 academic year.


Appendix 4: Composition of MCNG assessment instruments

The tables in this appendix provide details of the allocation of items to each organiser within the assessments for the 2024 to 2025 academic year. Additionally, Table 8 shows the number of items presented to each learner, in relation to the total number of items available within the adaptive model for the assessment.

In each assessment, in each stage, all of the available organisers were represented. However, there were different proportions across the stages. In the school-level reports, teachers received information about the relationship between the learner's overall outcome and their outcome at organiser level. This was provided at the individual learner level for each organiser that was addressed by at least five items in the learner's adaptive assessment. Where there were fewer than five items allocated to an organiser within a learner's assessment, outcomes are not reported in this national report, since outcomes are not considered sufficiently reliable to be used in reporting overall national performance on the organiser.

Table 9. MCNG 2024 to 2025 number of items per learner and assessment
Stage Learning Area Total scored items per learner assessment Total number of scored items in assessment
P1 Numeracy 30 75
P1 Literacy 30 99
P4 Numeracy 30 105
P4 Reading 29 or 30 88
P4 Writing 30 124
P7 Numeracy 30 100
P7 Reading 30 95
P7 Writing 30 112
S3 Numeracy 30 80
S3 Reading 30 70
S3 Writing 30 94
Table 10. MCNG 2024 to 2025 number of numeracy items by organiser
Organiser P1 P4 P7 S3
Number 33 37 33 25
Fractions, decimal fractions and percentages 7 21 20 16
Measurement, time and money 19 30 29 23
Information handling 11 17 18 16
Total 75 105 100 80
Table 11. MCNG 2024 to 2025 number of reading items by organiser (including P1 literacy)
Organiser P1 P4 P7 S3
Tools for reading 73 11 10 8
Finding and using information 0 32 24 17
Understanding, analysing and evaluating 26 45 61 45
Total 99 88 95 70
Table 12. MCNG 2024 to 2025 number of writing items by organiser
Organiser P4 P7 S3
Spelling 60 56 52
Grammar 36 24 18
Punctuation 28 32 24
Total 124 112 94

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