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Assessment of Achievement Programme
Report of the First AAP Survey of Social Subjects Enquiry Skills (2002)
Acknowledgements
This first AAP survey of pupil attainment in Social Subjects Enquiry Skills, funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department, was successfully undertaken through the co-operation of many individuals and institutions:
- officers of the education authorities, and head teachers and their staff who helped to implement the national survey in schools throughout the country;
- the 10000 or so pupils who made up the national sample and whose efforts provided the data for the survey;
- the members of the project team who planned and implemented the survey and particular thanks to Sandra Johnson, and Elaine Cowan of the School of Education, University of Aberdeen who analysed the data and drafted the report;
- statistical analysis staff in the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), who drew the school and pupil samples and partially analysed the survey data;
- the teachers and college lecturers who developed new assessment tasks for this survey; those primary and secondary teachers who carried out the assessment of practical enquiry skills and core skills; and teachers from all parts of Scotland who marked the writing tasks;
- the university students who marked the written tasks.
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