Scottish Government

Revised version: August 2009
ISBN 978 0 7559 9080 1 (Web only publication)
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Contents

1 Overview
1.1 Survey objectives
1.2 The scope of survey enquiry
1.3 Reporting strategy

2 School and pupil sampling
2.1 Overview
2.2 School sampling
2.3 Pupil sampling
2.4 Practical assessment sample

3 The assessment materials and their administration
3.1 Defining mathematics and numeracy
3.2 Test items
3.3 Test booklets
3.4 Booklet administration

4 Population attainment estimation
4.1 Response processing
4.2 Data weighting
4.3 Sampling error estimation