NEW – publishing January!
Basic Number Screening Test – 4th edition
Orally delivered numeracy assessment for ages 7 to 12
Bill Gillham and Ken Hesse, revised and restandardised by Colin McCarty
The Basic Number Screening Test is a quick, reliable assessment focusing on children’s understanding of number and number operations. It assesses National Curriculum teaching from Years 1 to 5, making the test suitable for use throughout Key Stage 2. Because the test is delivered orally – to assess pupils' numeracy skills, rather than their reading ability – it is ideal for use with poor readers. It can also be used with older, less able pupils at Key Stage 3.
Quick to give and easy to mark – with parallel forms A & B to enable re-testing to assess progress and the effectiveness of specific teaching intervention – the test takes 30 minutes or less to administer to class groups or individual pupils.
This new edition has been restandardised on over 8000 pupils nationally. It now provides standardised scores and National Curriculum levels, as well as Number Ages. The test content is unchanged, giving continuity for current users.
Norms are provided as standardised scores for ages 6:0 to 12:3, and as Number Ages 5 to 12:8. Across this range, an informal ‘special needs indicator’ helps pinpoint those children who are likely to require some degree of learning support. Where further investigation is required, the Basic Number Diagnostic Test provides detailed analysis and follow-up.
- fully restandardised to bring a popular test fully up to date;
- orally delivered – to assess pupils' numeracy skills, rather than their reading ability – across the 7 to 12 age range;
- quick to administer and mark, with parallel forms A & B to enable easy re-testing of class groups or individual pupils, to assess progress;
- ideal for use with less able pupils and poor readers, including special needs pupils at KS3;
- matched to the Mathematics Framework, with norms now given as standardised scores and NC levels as well as number ages.
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