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Scottish Survey of Achievement

23/02/2010

Scotland's Chief Statistician today published the Scottish Survey of Achievement 2009 - Reading and Writing. The publication includes a range of statistics relating to the reading and writing attainment of pupils across Scotland relative to the national 5-14 curriculum levels.

The main findings are:

• The proportion of pupils attaining the expected levels in reading decreased through primary and into secondary. This trend was the same for attainment in writing
• Reading attainment at all stages assessed remained at a similar level between 2005, 2006 and 2009
• In general, girls performed better than boys in reading. The proportion of pupils in the most deprived areas with 'well-established' or better reading skills at the expected level was around 20 percentage points less than for pupils in less deprived areas, across all stages
• Pupils' confidence in reading, writing, talking and listening decreased through primary and S2

Official statistics are produced by professionally independent statistical staff.