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Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence Levels linkage data - Scotland

Summary

Abstract

Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Levels provides information on national performance in literacy and numeracy, based on all pupils in publicly funded Primary 1, Primary 4, Primary 7 and Secondary 3 classes, and those in special schools/units

Keywords

Children Publicly funded schools Curriculum Literacy Numeracy English Gaelic Gàidhlig Administrative ADR Scotland Children and young people Education

Publisher

Documentation

Description

The data are provided to Scottish Government by local authorities and grant-aided schools. Independent schools are not included in the annual data collection. The assessments of children's progress are based on teachers' professional judgements in schools. Teacher professional judgements of achievement of a level are based on all of the evidence collected by teachers during the ongoing assessment of children and young people's learning. A wide range of evidence is collected in a variety of ways. This includes observing children and young people at work, assessing their work in class, standardised assessments and assessing children and young people's knowledge and understanding by talking to them about their learning. The data collected cover all pupils in Primary 1, Primary 4, Primary 7 and Secondary 3 in mainstream schools and all pupils based in special schools/units. Teacher judgements cover the four organisers of reading, writing, listening and talking and numeracy. Special schools and standalone special units cater for children of all ages. The information gathered as part of the ACEL return does not include a specific stage for these pupils (i.e. they are simply recorded as being a pupil based in a special school or standalone special unit and not as being in P1, P4, etc.).
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    • Available resource files can be downloaded below.

      File name

      Achievement Of Curriculum For Excellence Levels Data Dictionary

      Type

      .XLSX

      File name

      Achievement Of Curriculum For Excellence Levels Indexing Report

      Type

      .PDF

  • Is part of
    • School education statistics (www.gov.scot)

Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    Scotland

  • Geographic levels
    council area

Temporal

  • Start date
    01/09/2016
  • End date
    05/01/2022
  • Frequency
    Irregular
  • Distribution release date
    10/06/2024

Provenance

  • Purpose
    Adminstrative
  • Source
    Electronic survey
  • Collection situation
    Local authority

Access and governance

  • Conditions of access
    Access needs approval

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Usage

  • Conditions of use
    Application of Statistical Disclosure Control
  • Resource creator
    Scottish Government
  • Is referenced by
    Not available

Access

Format and standards

  • Language
    English
  • Format
    CSV, EXCEL

Enrichment and linkage

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset. 

Data dictionary

AC_YEAR

Academic Year of Census

GAELIC_EDUCATION

Gaelic education identifier

LA_CODE

Local Authority code. Standard authority code

LEVEL_ELT

Assessed component within the curriculum: Literacy – Listening and Talking (English)

LEVEL_ER

Assessed component within the curriculum: Literacy– Reading (English)

LEVEL_EW

Assessed component within the curriculum: Literacy – Writing (English)

LEVEL_GLT

Assessed component within the curriculum: Literacy – Listening and Talking (Gàidhlig)

LEVEL_GR

Assessed component within the curriculum: Literacy – Reading (Gàidhlig)

LEVEL_GW

Assessed component within the curriculum: Literacy – Writing (Gàidhlig)

LEVEL_N

Assessed component within the curriculum: Numeracy

Variable description

Data type
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