Education and Skills Committee

1. Declaration of interests: Gil Paterson will be invited to declare any relevant interests. 2. Decision on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether to take agenda item 4 in private. The Committee will also decide whether to take future considerations of evidence on its Scottish National Standardised Assessments inquiry in private. 3. Scottish National Standardised Assessments inquiry: The Committee will take evidence from- Mhairi Shaw, Director of Education, East Renfrewshire Council on behalf of the, Association of Directors of Education in Scotland; Juliette Mendelovits, Director of Assessment and Reporting for the Australian Council of Education Research, ACER; Professor Sue Ellis, Professor of Education, University of Strathclyde; Professor Christine Merrell, Professor in the School of Education and Deputy Head of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health, Durham University. 4. Review of evidence: The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier. 5. Music tuition in schools (in private): The Committee will consider a draft report.