Bracken Basic Concept Scale | Third Edition: Receptive evaluates a child’s acquisition of basic concepts nonverbally. The tested areas are strongly related to cognitive and language development as well as early childhood academic achievement.
Bracken Basic Concept Scale | Third Edition: Receptive evaluates a child’s acquisition of basic concepts nonverbally. The tested areas are strongly related to cognitive and language development as well as early childhood academic achievement.
Bruce A. Bracken, PhD
Overview:Evaluate the acquisition of basic concepts of a child, which is strongly related to cognitive and language development as well as early childhood academic achievement
Age Range:3:0 - 6:11 years
Scoring Option:coring Assistant® software
RTI Tiers:RTI Levels SRC - 1; Total Test - 2 and 3
Completion Time:School Readiness Composite (SRC): 10-15 minutes. Receptive test total: 30-40 minutes.
Scores/Interpretation:English: SRC and Subtest Scaled Scores, SRC and Total Composite Scores, Percentile Ranks, Concept Age Equivalents, and Descriptive Classification. Spanish: Percent Mastery
Report Options:Teacher and Parent Reports
Publication Date:Fall 2006
The Bracken Basic Concept Scale, Third Edition: Receptive (BBCS-3:R) and Bracken Basic Concept Scale: Expressive (BBCS:E) help you evaluate a child’s language skills, cognitive development, and school readiness. Together, these tools help assess a child’s basic concept skills receptively and expressively and compare results to national norms. Spanish-language adaptations of the record forms are available.
As a family of products in concept development, the Bracken assessments differ in focus and item type. In the BBCS-3:R, the child simply points to a correct picture. This is a nonverbal task. In the BBCS-E, the child verbally responds to stimulus items. The BSRA-3 is a school readiness screener; it evaluates just 5 areas of the full BBCS assessments. Together, they are a powerful set of tools for a child’s concept formation and academic success.
These instruments help you:
Evaluate and teach basic concept categories that are essential aspect of a child’s developing awareness of the world:
These categories are essential aspects of a child’s developing awareness of the world. For example, the Colors subtest assesses children’s ability to identify and name 1) Primary Colors, 2) Secondary Colors, and 3) Color Absolutes (i.e., white and black). These colors are universal to all cultures and all languages and are necessary for describing the world in which we live. In addition, the concepts provide the building blocks for academic instruction. The Letters/Sounds subtest, for example, was developmentally sequenced to assess identification and naming of upper-case and lower-case letters.
The Bracken Scoring Assistant allows you to quickly and accurately score test results, maintain test records and create graphical and summary reports for the BBCS-3: R and BBCS: E. It also guides you in determining the appropriate intervention.
From your test results, the software will identify related BCDP lesson plans that are curriculum-based instructional exercises. These interventions focus on both classroom and home activities, which can be provided by either the teacher or parent.
You also have the ability to present a child’s performance and progress in a parent report available in both English and Spanish, minimizing the challenges of communicating with parents whose native language is Spanish.
BBCS-3-R Parent Report (PDF – 180 kb)
BBCS-3-R Spanish Pre-Posttest Teacher Report (PDF – 316 kb)
BBCS-3-R Spanish Primera-Segunda Reporte Para Los Padres (PDF – 320 kb)
BBCS-3-R Spanish Reporte Para Los Padres (PDF – 292 kb)
BBCS-3-R Spanish Teacher Report (PDF – 313 kb)
BBCS-3-R Teacher Report (PDF – 241 kb)
Bracken Sample Report (PDF – 628kb)
Bracken Scoring Assistant Sample Report (PDF – 619 kb)
BBCS Parent Report, Description of Scores in English and Spanish (PDF – 38 kb)
Bracken State Standards Sheet (PDF – 267kb)
BBCS-3:R Update Letter (PDF – 80 KB)
BBCS-3:R Sticker (PDF – 40 KB)
Bracken Basic Concept Scale: Concept Development and Early Childhood Assessment (PPS – 10.7mb)
Bracken Case Study 1 – Getting the Whole Picture: Assess Receptive and Expressive Concept Abilities (PDF – 190kb)
Bracken Case Study 2 – Getting the Whole Picture for the Bilingual Child: Assess English and Spanish Receptive and Expressive Concepts (PDF – 187kb)
Frequently asked questions follow. Click on a question to see the response.
My understanding of a confidence interval was that it was equal on both sides of a child’s standard score (i.e., plus or minus x). But I’ve just administered a Bracken where a child 3;11 achieved a raw score of 21 for his SRC, corresponding to a standard score of 88. With a 95% confidence interval it says the range is 80 to 98. By my calculation that makes it 8 points on one side and ten points on the other side. How is this possible?
