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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 2: Composition of SNSA 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 4 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 4. SNSA 2024 to 2025 number of items per learner and assessment[7]
Stage Learning Area Total scored items per learner assessment Total number of scored items in assessment
P1 Numeracy 27 99
P1 Literacy 27 126
P4 Numeracy 30 135
P4 Reading 29 or 30 118
P4 Writing 30 114
P7 Numeracy 30 120
P7 Reading 30 89
P7 Writing 30 128
S3 Numeracy 30 140
S3 Reading 29 or 30 94
S3 Writing 30 148
Table 5. SNSA 2024 to 2025 number of numeracy items by organiser
Organiser P1 P4 P7 S3
Number 47 48 42 43
Fractions, decimal fractions and percentages 11 25 24 28
Measurement, time and money 29 39 35 41
Information handling 12 23 19 28
Total 99 135 120 140
Table 6. SNSA 2024 to 2025 number of reading items by organiser (including P1 literacy)
Organiser P1 P4 P7 S3
Tools for reading 70 12 16 12
Finding and using information 18 44 24 26
Understanding, analysing and evaluating 38 62 49 56
Total 126 118 89 94
Table 7. SNSA 2024 to 2025 number of writing items by organiser
Organiser P4 P7 S3
Grammar 40 40 44
Punctuation 38 48 52
Spelling 36 40 64
Grand Total 114 128 160

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