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PTS Assessments

Dyslexia Screener

An innovative,  online assessment designed to help you identify pupils with dyslexic tendencies. As an initial screening tool, it enables you to distinguish between poor reading ability and dyslexia, and gives advice on next steps. Dyslexia Screener: Includes adaptive testing to... more

ASEBA - Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment

The ASEBA is a comprehensive evidence-based assessment system developed through decades of research and practical experience. The ASEBA assesses competencies, adaptive functioning, personal strengths, and behavioral, emotional, social, and thought problems from age 1½ to 90+ years.  ASEBA... more

Teacher Observation Scales

The Teacher Observation Scales are designed for identifying children with special abilities. Students who are borderline gifted and talented, puzzling, unknown, new to the school, enigmatic, and/or who display intermittent signs of unusual ability, should be rated by these scales. There are five... more

Spelling - Approaches to Teaching and Assessment - Second Edition

Filled with up-to-date information, references and research-based teaching methods, the second edition of Spelling provides an overview of effective ways to help students develop and improve their spelling skills and strategies. This second edition includes: Revised chapters that... more

Single Word Spelling Test (SWST)

The Single Word Spelling Test (SWST) comprises a series of nine standardised tests designed to assess spelling attainment. Each test covers everyday vocabulary and contains between 30 and 50 words (depending on level), including high frequency, literacy hour and spelling bank words. The... more

Graded Word Spelling Test - Third Edition (GWST-3)

<p>This is an 80-item test that measures a student's ability to correctly spell words that are presented orally. Each word is placed in the context of a short sentence and graded in order of difficulty. The particular items to be used are selected from the list according to the age and... more

The Listening Inventory (TLI)

The Listening Inventory is an informal behavioral observation completed by parents and/or teachers. The Listening Inventory is a first step to quantify behaviors to see if a child might need evaluation for auditory disorders and it can provide a starting point for discussions with the speech-... more

Auditory Processing Abilities Test (APAT)

The APAT was designed to identify students who are at risk of developing, or may be experiencing, auditory processing disorder. Subtest scores yield composite scores for global auditory processing, linguistic processing (with additional composites: discrimination, sequencing, and cohesion), and... more

British Picture Vocabulary Scale - Third Edition (BPVS-3)

GL Assessment’s leading vocabulary assessment for standard English, the British Picture Vocabulary Scale: Third Edition (BPVS3), can play an important role in assessing a child’s receptive (hearing) vocabulary, from as young as 3 years right up to 16 years of age. Its simple, appealing format and... more

Criterion Test of Basic Skills - 2 (CTOBS-2)

This instrument provides a criterion-referenced assessment of reading and arithmetic skills. The Reading subtest assesses basic word attack skills in the following areas: letter recognition, letter sounds, blending, sequencing, decoding of common spelling patterns and multi-syllable words, and... more

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