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A: Introduction
This report provides detailed results of the assessment of pupils' attainment carried out through the 2006 Scottish Survey of Achievement ( SSA). The survey has the dual purpose of reporting on attainment in both the particular subject focus in each year as well as on core skills in the context of that subject. In 2006, the SSA focused on Social Subjects (enquiry skills).
The specific objectives of the survey were to:
- Assess pupils' attainment in Social Subjects (enquiry skills) at P3, P5, P7, S2 stages, at the national level.
- Assess pupils' attainment in numeracy and reading at P3, P5, P7, S2 stages at the national and local authority level. Reading was assessed within the Social Subjects context, numeracy assessments were context free.
- Assess pupils' attainment in writing (in the context of Social Subjects) at P3, P5, P7, S2 stages at the national and local authority level.
- Assess pupils' attainment in core skills (working with others, problem solving and ICT) applied in a Social Subjects context at P3, P5, P7, S2 stages at the national level.
- Gather and report nationally on pupils' and teachers' experience of, and views on, learning and teaching in Social Subjects.
- Gather and report nationally on parents' perception of their child's pre-school experience, and on parents' experience of contact with their child's primary school.
The survey provides information to inform Social Subjects education policy and supports the enhancement of Social Subjects teaching in Scotland, through the development of assessment materials and the involvement of practising teachers in the development of materials, the assessment process and moderation of results.
This report presents results for Scotland as a whole. Also included is information at local authority level for the sixteen local authorities selected for reporting in 2006.
The results are presented in the form of summary charts along with brief commentary, followed by more detailed tables of results. These are the first results to be published from the 2006 survey. Further, more detailed analysis of this data is intended in due course. No information represented in this report or otherwise published will enable individual pupils to be identified. No information is made available at individual school, pupil or teacher level. All pupils and teachers who participated in the survey will remain anonymous.
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