National Standardised Assessments for Scotland: national report 2022 to 2023

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 2022 to 2023 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 2022 to 2023 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 8. MCNG 2022 to 2023 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 85
P1 Literacy 30 96
P4 Numeracy 30 75
P4 Reading 30 68
P4 Writing 30 80
P7 Numeracy 30 90
P7 Reading 30 72
P7 Writing 30 80
S3 Numeracy 30 80
S3 Reading 30 72
S3 Writing 30 85
Table 9. MCNG 2022 to 2023 number of numeracy items by organiser
Organiser P1 P4 P7 S3
Number 40 30 30 25
Fractions, decimal fractions and percentages 7 13 18 16
Measurement, time and money 24 23 30 23
Information handling 14 9 12 16
Total 85 75 90 80
Table 10. MCNG 2022 to 2023 number of reading items by organiser (including P1 literacy)
Organiser P1 P4 P7 S3
Tools for reading 74 12 12 12
Finding and using information 0 27 18 19
Understanding, analysing and evaluating 22 39 42 41
Total 96 68 72 72
Table 11. MCNG 2022 to 2023 number of writing items by organiser
Organiser P4 P7 S3
Spelling 40 45 45
Grammar 27 16 17
Punctuation 13 23 23
Total 80 80 85

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