SNSA Equating Study

The main purpose of the Scottish National Standardised Assessments (SNSA) is to provide information for teachers on how well children and young people in Primary 1, 4, 7 and Secondary 3 are doing in literacy and numeracy in order to help guide learning and teaching. These assessments are carried out in class as part of everyday schoolwork.

To ensure that information on learners' progress throughout their schooling from P1 through to S3 is as useful as possible to teachers, the Scottish Government needs to carry out a 'long scale equating study'.

Inveralmond CHS is delighted to share that it has been selected by the local authority to work alongside the Scottish Government in relation to the SNSA long scale equating study in numeracy.

The equating study involves a sample of Scottish children and young people in Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 6, Secondary 1 and Secondary 2 taking assessments within a specified period. Data will be used to produce 'long scales' for reporting purposes for each of the subject areas. Information collected from the long scale equating study will not be used by the Scottish Government to analyse individual outcomes.

The Scottish Government has requested that these assessments be administered to our S1/S2 students in numeracy during the period 5 February to 2 March 2018.

The SNSA long scale equating study will make an important contribution to the robustness of SNSA reporting from 2018-19 onwards.