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28 May 2025
Purpose: Assess seven areas of achievement throughout the life span
Age range: 4 to 85 years
Admin: Individual
Admin time: Comprehensive Form: 90 minutes to administer; 15 minutes to score. Screening Form: 30-45 minutes to administer; 5-10 minutes to score
The AAB is a complete achievement assessment, offering both a comprehensive battery and a screening version for use with individuals throughout the life span.
Composite Score | Subtest | Age Level | How does it work? |
Basic Reading | Reading Foundation Skills | Ages 3/4 to 8 years | Requires the examinee to demonstrate phonological awareness through tasks focused on rhyming, sound matching, blending, segmenting, deleting and substitution. |
Letter / Word Reading | Letter Reading: Ages 3/4 to 8 years Word Reading: 4 to 85 years |
Letter Reading requires the examinee to identify lowercase and uppercase letters. Word Reading requires the examinee to pronounce words of increasing difficulty. | |
Reading Fluency | Ages 4 to 85 years | Requires the examinee to demonstrate oral reading fluency during a timed reading task. | |
Reading Comprehension | Words and Sentences |
Words: Ages 3/4 to 8 years Sentences: Ages 4 to 85 years |
Requires the examinee to point to the written word or sentence that matches a visual stimulus. |
Passages | 5 years and older | Requires the examinee to read passages of increasing difficulty. | |
Listening Comprehension | Words and Sentences | Ages 4 to 85 years | Requires the examinee to select the visual stimulus that matches a spoken word or sentence. |
Passages | Ages 4 to 85 years | Requires the examinee to respond orally to literal and inferential questions after hearing a passage read aloud. | |
Expressive Communication | Oral Fluency | Ages 4 to 85 years | Requires the examinee to list as many items as possible in 60 seconds when provided a category. |
Oral Expression | Ages 4 to 85 years | Requires the examinee to demonstrate his or her grasp of pragmatics, grammar and expressive vocabulary. | |
Oral Production | Ages 4 to 85 years | Requires the examinee to describe an illustrated scene; measures speech output and fluency. | |
Written Expression | Pre-Writing Skills | Ages 3/4 to 8 years | Requires the examinee to trace lines and figures of increasing difficulty. |
Spelling |
Letter Writing: Ages 3/4 to 8 years Word Writing: Ages 4 to 85 years |
Letter Writing requires the examinee to write lowercase and uppercase letters. Words Writing requires the examinee to correctly spell words of increasing difficulty. | |
Written Composition | 8 years and older |
Requires the examinee to spontaneously write; evaluates theme, organisation, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, presentation and conventions. | |
Mathematical Calculation | Mathematical Calculation |
Part 1: Ages 3/4 to 8 years Part 2: Ages 4 to 85 years |
Part 1 requires the examinee to provide oral and written responses to maths problems. Part 2 requires the examinee to complete increasingly difficult maths calculations in a timed task. |
Mathematical Reasoning | Mathematical Reasoning | Ages 4 to 85 years | Requires the examinee to apply mathematical reasoning to real-life problems through oral response. |