7 January 2016
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed plans to help eliminate the gap between how well the least and most deprived children do at school.
In the National Improvement Framework for education, teacher judgement will be informed by a system of new national standardised assessment which will provide better and more consistent data about our children’s performance than we have ever had before.
.@NicolaSturgeon & @AConstanceMSP launch National Improvement Framework with @WestquarterPrim who helped with it pic.twitter.com/kWTouhmLtO
— Engage for Education (@engagefored) January 6, 2016
This will give us – for the very first time – a clear and consistent picture of how children and young people are progressing in their learning.
New & better information on educational performance will help eliminate the attainment gap within a decade pic.twitter.com/z1gk1UbHEG
— First Minister (@ScotGovFM) January 6, 2016
Local authorities will use new standardised assessments, in reading, writing and numeracy in P1, P4, P7 and S3 to evaluate learning and teaching through Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence.
— First Minister (@ScotGovFM) January 6, 2016
The First Minister said:
We should all aspire to making substantial progress in completely eliminating the attainment gap within the next decade.”
Plans for standardised tests for Scottish primary pupils revealed by @NicolaSturgeon today https://t.co/N2ZIINMEYL pic.twitter.com/qEIjB4QbVp
— BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) January 6, 2016