Attainment Scotland Fund Evaluation: Reporting on Wider Evidence Sources, 2024

The Health and Wellbeing Census was first undertaken in 2021/22 in 16 local authorities, with experimental statistics published in March 2023.

• Mental Health (WEMWEBS)
• Mental Health (SDQ)
• Feeling pressured by school work
• Confidence
• Enjoying learning at school
• Life satisfaction
• Bullied in last year

PISA provides internationally comparative data on performance in maths, reading and science, as well as student survey data on home and school life, and attitudes to and experience of education. The assessment is undertaken by 15 year olds and is undertaken every three years.

• PISA Reading Score
• PISA Maths Score
• PISA Science Score
• Life satisfaction
• Satisfaction with life at school
• Sense of Belonging
• Self-efficacy
• Growth Mindset

Growing up in Scotland (GUS) is an important longitudinal research study, tracking the lives of thousands of young people and their families from birth through to the teenage years and beyond. Launched in 2005, to date, GUS has collected information on three nationally representative cohorts of children. The current GUS cohort contains 5217 children, born between June 2004 and May 2005.

• Life satisfaction
• Mental Health (SDQ)
• Patient Health Questionnaire
• School helped with confidence
• School helped with life preparation
• School work worth doing

The report on transitions from primary to secondary school uses data gathered from children around the time they were in their penultimate year of primary school (Primary 6) and then again when they were in their first year of secondary school (Secondary 1/S1) to explore their experiences of this important phase of their lives.

• Positive/negative transition experience by SIMD/income
• Increase in average cognitive ability post transition by SIMD/income
• School costs by SIMD/household income
• Prevalence of bullying in primary and secondary schools

The Parental Involvement and Engagement (PIE) Census aims to rationalise the collection of parental involvement and engagement data by providing a set of questions that all authorities are invited to ask in their respective area. Twenty local authorities collected data using the PIE Census 2021/22, 18 of which shared their data with Scottish Government in time for inclusion in the published analysis.

• School staff are approachable
• The school takes my views about my child's learning into account.
• The school seeks my views and opinions on school policies.
• The cost of participating in school activities and events is affordable.
• Overall, how satisfied are you with how the school engages with you?

This annual release presents employment and earnings outcomes for leavers of higher education five years after graduation. The data is broken down by sex, ethnicity, Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD), course taken, and Scottish Higher Education Institute.

• Median total earnings of graduates from Scottish HEIs by SIMD and sex five years after graduation

An annual publication outlining educational outcomes for Looked After Children, including School Leaver Initial Destinations, Follow-up Destination Data, and Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence Levels data. This publication pulls together data from different datasets

• ACEL data
• Positive destinations
• SCQF levels
• Attendance
• Exclusions

This report presents data relating to the Commission on Widening Access targets, and on Scottish-domiciled entrants to higher and further education in Scotland by socio-economic deprivation, gender, ethnicity, disability, care experience and age

• Scottish-domiciled full-time first-degree at university and all undergraduate HE qualifiers, by 20% most deprived areas (and broken down by sex)
• Number and Proportion of Scottish domiciled Entrants to Scotland's Universities by Subject Studied, mode and level, and deprivation quintile
• Retention rate, broken down by SIMD (and broken down by sex)
• Number and Proportion of Students Articulating with Advanced Standing by SIMD
• Number and Proportion of Enrolments to courses 160 hours+ in duration at Scotland's Colleges by SIMD

These statistics describe attainment in any qualification or learning programme on the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF). This includes the SQA National Qualifications, other SQA qualifications and qualifications from other providers. The qualifications included will change over time, reflecting the changing types of qualifications pupils are taking

• All SCQF measure (levels 4-6) by SIMD over time
• Attainment gap for All SCQF measure by levels 4-6