The Bracken family of assessment tools consists of developmentally sensitive measures to assess a child's basic concept knowledge. Building on the strength of the Bracken Basic Concept Scale–Revised, the Bracken Basic Concept Scale—Third Edition: Receptive (BBCS–3:R) and the Bracken Basic Concept Scale: Expressive (BBCS:E) enable you to evaluate important conceptual and receptive language abilities rather than knowledge of vocabulary only. Easy to administer, score, and interpret, the new tools can assist clinicians, and preschool and kindergarten teachers with the development of appropriate IEP goals relating to specific educational curricula.

Bracken Basic Concept Scale—Third Edition: Receptive (BBCS–3:R)

The Bracken Basic Concept Scale—Third Edition: Receptive (BBCS–3:R) measures a child's auditory comprehension of basic concepts. It evaluates foundational and functionally relevant education concepts in 10 important concept categories. A Parent/Teacher Conference Form reports a child's level of understanding of each of the basic concepts to parents and teachers. The first 5 subtests yield the School Readiness Composite (SRC), defining a child's knowledge level of educationally-relevant concepts that are traditionally required for early formal education. The SRC can also be used independently as a screener for school readiness.

Bracken Basic Concept Scale: Expressive (BBCS:E)

The expressive counterpart to the Bracken Basic Concept Scale—Third Edition: Receptive (BBCS–3:R), the Bracken Basic Concept Scale: Expressive (BBCS:E) can be used to measure a child's ability to verbally label basic concepts. Following the same concept as the BBCS–3:R, these foundational and functionally relevant educational concepts are assessed in 10 important concept categories. The BBCS:E and the BBCS–3:R were conormed, i.e. both tests were administered to the same normative sample.

Speech-Language Pathologists, School Psychologists, Educational Diagnosticians, Early Childhood Teachers, and Special Education Teachers can use the BBCS–3:R and BBCS:E to:

• determine if a child has acquired the basic concepts necessary to be successful in formal education;
• determine which basic concepts a child has mastered; which concepts a child understands in certain contexts, but not others; and which concepts a child has not acquired;
• plan curriculum-relevant intervention;
• measure student progress;
• identify children with language impairments;
• determine potential eligibility for speech-language therapy services; and
• determine if there is a significant difference between a child's receptive and expressive levels of basic concept acquisition, when used in conjunction with the BBCS:E.

BBCS –3:R and BBCS :E Scoring Assistant®

With the Scoring Assistant software, you can now quickly and accurately score test results, maintain demographic information, store raw scores, and create comprehensive graphical and narrative reports for both the BBCS–3:R and BBCS:E.