Keir Bloomer, the chair of the Commission on School Reform, said the latest literacy results, published last week, showed something was “seriously wrong” with children’s reading and writing skills.
Less than half (49 per cent) of Scotland’s 13 and 14-year-olds are performing well in writing, according to the latest results of the Scottish Survey on Literacy and Numeracy (SSLN), a decline of 15 percentage points on 2012.
In future, data on literacy and numeracy will come via national standardised testing that is being introduced in primary and secondary schools and will be supported by teacher judgements.
The government has insisted the new measure will give more information than before but political opponents have decried the latest results as an indictment of SNP policy.
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