Version: 1.0.11 | Published: 8 Apr 2025 | Updated: 20 days ago
Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence Levels linkage data - Scotland
Dataset
Summary
Citation:
CITATION INCOMPLETE
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.).
Is Part Of:
School education statistics (www.gov.scot)
Coverage
Spatial
Spatial Coverage:
Scotland
Geographical Levels:
council area
Temporal
Start Date:
01 September 2016
End Date:
05 January 2022
Frequency:
IRREGULAR
Provenance
Source:
ELECTRONIC SURVEY
Purpose:
ADMINSTRATIVE
Collection Situation:
Local authority
Access and Governance
Usage
Condition of Access:
Access needs approval
Condition of Use:
Application of Statistical Disclosure Control
Resource Creator:
Scottish Government
Access
Access Service:
- Access to this data is through submitting a completed application form to statistics.enquiries@gov.scot. The application form is available via https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-government-statistics-request-our-data/
- Find out about accessing secure datasets for research at https://www.researchdata.scot/accessing-data/data-access-overview/
Jurisdictions:
GB-SCT
Data Controller:
Scottish Government
Data Processor:
Not Applicable
Format and Standards
Languages:
en
Formats:
- CSV
- EXCEL
Enrichment and Linkage
Linkage Opportunity:
These datasets have been created through the ADR Scotland programme to enable
linkage by using the National Records of Scotland population spine.
https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/national-records-of-scotland-indexing-team