National Standardised Assessments for Scotland: national report 2022 to 2023

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 2022 to 2023 academic year. Additionally, Table 3 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.