Explore our most popular assessments and their practical benefits

We pride ourselves on bringing you not just the latest assessment tests, but also the very highest quality assessment tests. These assessments are renowned within the industry and offer you an excellent insight on the needs of the individual.

We are passionate about helping you to understand the needs of your learners and to be in the best position to implement support, to ensure they are able to do well in their education and have the same opportunities as their peers.

We’ve put together a handy list of our bestselling assessments here, their features and benefits, and why you should be using them in your practice.

Popular with professionals in psychology and education, the Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing, Second Edition (CTOPP2) assessment is designed to measure reading-related phonological processing skills, which are crucial for reading fluency and can indicate potential learning disabilities like dyslexia.

This test involves individual administration, allowing you to focus on the learner, and is suitable for individuals aged between 4-24 years and 11 months old.

Participants are asked to carry out tasks involving elision, blending words and non-words, sound matching, phoneme isolation, segmenting non-words, memory for digits, non-word repetition, and rapid digit, letter, colour and object naming. The test takes about 40 minutes.

The benefits of this test are that it is well standardised, and there are many sub-tests available, allowing you to get an in-depth profile of the learner.

CTOPP2 is one of our most popular assessments, and we can see why!

The WIAT-lll Third UK edition for Teachers (WIAT-IIl UK-T) is suitable for teachers and other professionals involved in educational assessment, particularly for identifying academic strengths and weaknesses in students.

It is standardised on a national UK sample, making it highly relevant for use in UK educational settings.

The test covers Early Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Word Reading, Oral Reading Tests, and Spelling, and provides a detailed assessment of literacy skills, allowing for a nuanced understanding of a student's academic abilities.

It also allows for flexible administration. Examiners may choose to administer a single subtest, a subset of the WIAT-III-UK-T subtests, or all 5 subtests, depending upon the age level of the student, the purpose of the assessment, and the subtest scores required.

It can be used for students aged between 4-24 years and 11 months old.

The benefits of this assessment is that it can be used to provide evidence for applications for Access Arrangements and Disabled Students' Allowance, and also used as a baseline to assess progress for students over time.

This useful assessment is specifically made for teachers and is a popular choice for that very reason!

The Test of Memory and Learning 2 (TOMAL2) is a standardised assessment offering comprehensive coverage of memory, including a detailed evaluation of both verbal and nonverbal memory functions, including different types of recall, learning, and attention.

This test requires individual administration, allowing you to achieve a detailed and focused profile of the individual. It can be used on children, adolescents, and adults aged between 5 years to 59 years and 11 months.

One of the particular benefits of the TOMAL2 is that it includes additional analyses of cultural impact to ensure a fair assessment of memory across diverse populations. It can assist in diagnosing memory disturbances and other conditions like learning disabilities, traumatic brain injury, and ADHD. 

The test has high reliability, ensuring consistent and accurate results. This makes it one of our bestselling and highly recommended products!

The Test of Word Reading Efficiency, Second Edition (TOWRE2) is a quick and reliable way to assess the efficiency of sight word recognition and phonemic decoding in children and adults, providing education professionals, schools and psychologists with a reliable and valid measure of fluency and accuracy of print-based word-reading skills.

The TOWRE2 can help identify students who may need more intensive instruction in word reading skills early in their learning journey, however this test can also be used as part of a battery of tests to diagnose reading disabilities in older children and adults.

It has a suitable age range of 6 to 24 years 11 months.

Because it can be administered very quickly, the test provides an efficient means of monitoring the growth of two kinds of word reading skills that are critical in the development of overall reading ability. Another benefit of TOWRE2 is that it can be used to monitor progress in growth of word-level reading skills three or four times per year, allowing you to ensure that your learners are progressing.

With all these benefits, it’s no wonder that educators and psychologists love TOWRE2!

The Gray Oral Reading Tests, Fifth Edition (GORT5), is one of the most widely used measures of oral reading fluency and comprehension.

This test offers several benefits for assessing and supporting individuals with reading difficulties. It helps to identify students needing more intensive reading instruction, diagnose specific reading disabilities, pinpoint strengths and weaknesses, and track reading progress over time, making it a valuable tool for educators and reading specialists.

One of the main benefits of this test is that it can also be used as part of a larger assessment battery to help diagnose specific reading disabilities, such as dyslexia. If you carry out dyslexia assessments in your school or setting, or your private practice, then we recommend adding the GORT5 to your assessment battery.

The Wide Range Achievement Test, Fifth Edition (WRAT5) measures and monitors fundamental reading, spelling, and maths skills.

This assessment allows you to test learners of all ages using the same assessment, screen individuals or small groups (with some subtests) to help identify those requiring a more comprehensive academic achievement evaluation, and administer only the subtests that are needed.

Some of the highlights of this product are that it has an efficient completion time; the test can be completed in as little as 15 minutes for younger children and as little as 30 minutes for older children and adults. It also has simple administration rules and clear scoring guidelines, contributing to accurate and timely data.

Not only this, but the test is suitable for use on individuals from ages 5 years to 85+ years, making it broadly accessible.

The Academic Achievement Battery (AAB) is a complete achievement assessment, offering both a comprehensive battery and a screening version for use with individuals throughout the individual’s lifespan.

The AAB helps identify an individual's strengths and weaknesses in specific academic areas, facilitating targeted interventions. The AAB can then also be used to track progress over time, providing insights into the effectiveness of interventions. Unlike some other assessments, the AAB does not require specialised certification to administer, making it widely accessible.

This test can be administered in about 90 minutes and scored in 15 minutes.

With this accessibility to assessors, and comprehensive battery, this makes the AAB a top choice in the shop!

The Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test, Second Edition (KBIT-2) allows you to measure verbal and nonverbal cognitive ability.

It can be used for various purposes, such as screening for high-risk children, evaluating intellectual ability in institutional settings, and re-evaluating cognitive ability after significant life events. The KBIT-2 is also valuable for comparing verbal and nonverbal abilities, identifying gifted students, and assessing intelligence in children with additional needs.

Benefits of the KBIT-2 are that it can assess intelligence in a relatively short time, typically around 20 minutes. It provides separate scores for verbal and nonverbal intelligence, allowing for a more nuanced understanding of an individual’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses. The KBIT-2 has been shown to be reliable and valid, meaning it consistently provides accurate results. 

The KBIT-2 can be used with individuals ranging from 4 to 90 years of age.

With this wide range of benefits, we highly recommend the KBIT-2 if you are looking to achieve a quick and reliable estimate of both verbal and nonverbal intelligence.

Would you like to add to your assessment battery? Then you can find these products, plus many others, in the shop today!

You may need some of these assessments for your studies if you are a current delegate of Real Training and Dyslexia Action. If so, you might want to find out more about the Study Purchase Scheme and how to access your 10% discount.

If you have any questions about any of these products, then why not get in touch with us? Just give us a call on +44 (0) 1784 222339 or email us shop@dyslexiaaction.org.uk.

If we are unable to answer your question, then we are pleased to work with the very best people who can! With our sister companies Real Training and Dyslexia Action, we work with educational psychologists who regularly use these assessments and are best placed to advise on their use and administration.

All you need to do is get in touch with us, and we can forward your questions on to the right contact.

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