Bruce A. Bracken

Bracken Basic Concept Scale Expressive is a verbal response test of a child&rsquo;s basic concepts skills expressively. BBCS:E helps determine cognitive and language development, for assessing childhood academic achievement

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Bracken Basic Concept Scales: Expressive

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Bracken Basic Concept Scale Expressive is a verbal response test of a child’s basic concepts skills expressively. BBCS:E helps determine cognitive and language development, for assessing childhood academic achievement

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Overview

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			<p>The Bracken assessments are a family of products in concept development, each differing in focus and item type. Together, they are a powerful set of tools for testing concept formation and academic success in children.</p>

			<h3>Benefits</h3>

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				<li>Determine if a child has mastered the basic concepts needed to be successful in formal education.</li>
				<li>Identify deficits and use results to plan intervention with the Bracken Concept Development Program.</li>
				<li>Match to goals of state Early Childhood standards. These tests comply with No Child Left Behind and IDEA 2004 requirements.</li>
				<li>Complete a discrepancy comparison to identify whether a child has a generalized concept deficit in both receptive and expressive skills or whether the deficit is primarily receptive or expressive.</li>
				<li>Obtain criterion-referenced information for Spanish-speaking students using the Spanish adaptation of the Bracken Receptive and Bracken Expressive.</li>
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			<h3>Features</h3>

			<p>Ten areas of assessment are covered, in a verbal test that has excellent psychometric characteristics, with extensive reliability and extensive validity evidence.</p>

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				<li>Assesses awareness of Color, Shapes, Sizes/Comparisons, Texture/Material, Letters/Sounds, Numbers/Counting, Quantity, Direction/Position, Self-/Social Awareness, and Time/Sequence.</li>
				<li>The standardization sample of 750 children is representative of the U. S. population and stratified by age, sex, race/ethnicity, geographic region, and primary caregiver education level.</li>
				<li>Test items were reviewed for content and cultural bias by a panel of speech language pathologists and education specialists with expertise in assessment of diverse populations.</li>
				<li>Internal consistency reliability coefficients and an intercorrelation study with the English version demonstrate that the BBCS-3:R and BBCS:E reliably assess basic concepts. Evidence of validity based on test content and internal structure is presented.</li>
				<li>Use together with the BBCS-3:R, BSRA-3, and BBCS, for a powerful set of tools for a child&rsquo;s concept formation and academic success.</li>
				<li>Spanish-language adaptations of the record forms are also available.</li>
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			<h3>Sample Reports</h3>

			<p>The Bracken Scoring Assistant quickly and accurately scores test results, maintains test records and creates graphical and summary reports for the BBCS-3: R and BBCS: E. It also guides intervention and lesson plans.</p>
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