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https://www.gov.scot/news/achievement-of-curriculum-for-excellence-cfe-levels-2022-23/

Official statistics have been released today on school pupils’ Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Levels (ACEL) in the reading, writing, listening & talking and numeracy ‘organisers’.

The statistics, based on teacher judgement, report on the percentage of school pupils in Primary 1 (P1), Primary 4 (P4), Primary 7 (P7) and Secondary 3 (S3) who have achieved the expected CfE Levels relevant to their stage. The results show:

For P1, P4 and P7 pupils combined, more than seven in ten pupils (73 per cent) achieved the expected CfE Level for literacy in 2022/23. This is the highest figure on record and compares to 71 per cent in 2021/22, and to 72 per cent in 2018/19, the last year before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

In numeracy, four-fifths (80 per cent) of primary school pupils (P1, P4 and P7 combined) achieved the expected CfE levels in 2022/23. This is again higher than in any previous year and compares to 78 per cent in 2021/22 and to 79 per cent in 2018/19.

Around nine out of ten S3 pupils achieved Third Level or better in each organiser in 2022/23. For literacy, 88 per cent of S3 pupils achieved Third Level or better whilst for numeracy 90 per cent achieved this level. In each case this was higher than in 2021/22. Compared to 2018/19 the proportions were the same or slightly lower.
The statistics also provide information on the gap in attainment between pupils from the most and least deprived areas of Scotland:

For both literacy and numeracy the gap between the proportion of primary pupils (P1, P4 and P7 combined) from the most and least deprived areas who achieved the expected level narrowed in 2022/23 compared to 2021/22. For literacy the gap of 20.5 percentage points was the narrowest on record whilst for numeracy the gap of 17 percentage points remained slightly wider than in both 2017/18 and 2018/19.

For S3 pupils the attainment gap in literacy at Third Level or better narrowed from 16.3 percentage points in 2021/22 to 13.7 percentage points in 2022/23. This is similar to the level seen in 2018/19. For numeracy the gap reduced to 13.6 percentage points in 2022/23 from 15.0 percentage points in 2021/22 – again the 2022/23 figure is similar to the level seen in 2018/19″

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The figures released today were produced by professionally independent statistical staff in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67691246

“More than one in four Scottish state primary pupils are still not achieving the literacy levels expected of them, their teachers’ assessments show.

One in five pupils are not reaching the numeracy levels expected by their teachers either.

However, Scottish government Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth insisted there was a “clear rise in standards”.”

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The latest Scottish government report is based on Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence Levels (ACEL) data in reading, writing, listening and talking, and numeracy.

Teachers use their own judgement to mark the percentage of school pupils in Primary 1 (P1), Primary 4 (P4), Primary 7 (P7) and Secondary 3 (S3) who have achieved the expected levels for their stage of learning.

Children can start learning at these levels at different ages, decided by the school depending on “individual needs and aptitudes”.

There are no formal test or exams to assess pupils’ attainment, but teachers have a list of “Experiences and Outcomes” which they use to rate progress.

The report authors acknowledged that teachers’ judgements “can be subjective”, but insisted they used a “wide range of supporting guidance, moderation activity and quality assurance checks” to make the teachers’ assessments consistent and reliable.

The statistics suggested that many children were still not reaching expected levels of attainment. Across primary school, about 27% of pupils did not achieve the expected levels of literacy and 20% the expected level of numeracy.

The report also claimed the gap in attainment between primary school pupils in the most and least deprived areas narrowed to the lowest on record.

In 2022/23, the gap between primary pupils in literacy in the richest and poorest areas of Scotland was 20.5%, down from 21.3% the previous year and 20.7% in 2018/19.

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