For your views on improving the collection of education data in Scotland for improvement purposes and to assess progress towards closing the poverty-related attainment gap.
The consultation was launched on 9 May 2022, in response to both the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Audit Scotland reports which made recommendations relating to data collection and the need to ensure it reflects the ambitions of Curriculum for Excellence.
The consultation asked 10 questions around:
The consultation closed on 18 July 2022. A total of 75 responses were received from a broad range of stakeholders and individuals. You provided views on the wide range of issues presented including those we asked about as well as around the themes more generally.
The Scottish Government’s analysis of the consultation has been published as well as the consultation responses (where permission was granted).
The responses to this consultation have informed policy development in the form of:
View submitted responses where consent has been given to publish the response.
In 2021, both the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Audit Scotland published reports (links to both are in the related section further down this page) which made recommendations relating to data collection and the need to ensure it reflects the ambitions of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE).
Audit Scotland recommended that the Scottish Government:
The OECD report says:
In light of these recommendations, there are two areas of focus for this consultation:
The results of this consultation will also inform the plans for a national discussion on the vision for Scottish education, which is being taken forward in response to the recommendation in Professor Ken Muir’s report Putting Learners at the Centre: Towards a Future Vision for Scottish Education, that:
The national discussion will include wider consideration of how to measure the effectiveness of the curriculum as a whole, as recommended by the OECD.
The Scottish Government is interested in the views of anyone who is directly or indirectly involved with the Scottish education system aged 3-18 and those who have an interest in the issues covered in the consultation paper. We would love to hear the views of children and young people, practitioners, school staff, early learning and childcare staff, local authorities and Professional Associations.
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