British Ability Scales: Third Edition (BAS-3)

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British Ability Scales: Third Edition (BAS-3)


– A comprehensive and flexible battery for assessing children’s current intellectual functioning



  • Author(s): Colin D Elliott and Pauline Smith

  • Suitable For: Educational and Clinical Psychologists

  • Age Range: 3 years – 17 years 11 months

  • Administration: Individual

  • Timings: Unlimited

New for 2011, The British Ability Scales: Third Edition (BAS3) is a battery of individually administered tests, designed for use by educational and clinical psychologists to assess children or adolescents who have been referred to them for a wide range of reasons, including learning and behavioural difficulties. It provides a comprehensive and flexible means of assessing different aspects of a child’s current intellectual functioning across the age range 3 years (3:00) to 17 years 11 months (17:11). It also allows a comparison of these aspects with the child’s basic educational progress. Used for a wide range of purposes, the battery can also provide researchers with a valuable research tool. The NEW edition is a revision and update of the British Ability Scales: Second Edition (BASII). It incorporates improvements to the existing scales which reflect changes to the National Curriculum, a supplementary parallel form of Word Reading and importantly, new normative information based on a nationwide standardisation.




  • BAS3 offers the convenience of providing one instrument for assessing both abilities and achievement at all ages from pre-school to end of secondary school


  • Co-normed with an assessment of reading comprehension and restandardised in 2009–2010


  • Reliable normative information based on over 1,400 children within the UK


  • Updated full-colour illustrations across a range of scales, making the assessment more appealing to the child


  • Updated words to the Spelling Scale and pictures within the Number Skills scale ensure that the battery is both relevant and appealing to children


  • Reflects the impact of the National Curriculum and the National Literacy Strategy on current literacy teaching through the introduction of a new form within the Word Reading Scale


  • The flexibility of BAS3 enables the accurate assessment of both gifted and developmentally delayed individuals


  • New scoring and analysis software


  • Score profiling and diagnostic facilities help support practitioners with a problem solving approach


  • Careful and detailed attention to ethnic- and gender-related fairness


  • Includes a new easier to transport carrying case

Complete Set contains:Administration & Scoring Manual, Technical Manual, Stimulus Booklets and Items for all relevant scales, 10 copies each of the following: Early Years Record Booklet, School Age Record Booklet, Diagnostic Scales Record Booklet, Number Skills Worksheet, Spelling Worksheet, Quantitative Reasoning Booklet A, Speed of Information Processing Booklets A, B & C.

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