Description
The Movement Assessment Battery for Children, Third Edition (Movement ABC-3) provides an overview of gross and fine motor skills to assist in the identification of motor coordination difficulties in children and young adults.
Movement ABC-3 Benefits:
- Identifies delay or impairment in motor development
- Helps in intervention planning
- Measures change and monitors progress over time
- Quick and easy to use in research related to motor development
- Helps paint a more holistic picture of motor performance using the Checklists to complement observational assessment
The Movement ABC-3 updates include:
- Revised and updated test content and items
- New manipulatives
- Extended age range down to 3 and up to 25
- Co-collected sample between the UK and ANZ
- Unified contructs across ages
Three Movement ABC-3 subtests:
- Manual Dexterity
- Aiming & Catching
- Balance
Separate Checklists for each age band:
- Parent/Teacher/Other
- Self (age band 3 only)
Test content and structure
The test contains 10 tasks for each of 3 age ranges: 3–6 years; 7–11 years and 12–25 years. The tasks cover the following 3 areas:
- Manual Dexterity
- Aiming & Catching (ball skills)
- Balance (static and dynamic)
Total standard scores and percentiles are provided and a profile of a child’s performance over the different sections of the test can be examined.
The assessment is paralleled by an observational approach to perceptual-motor aspects and emotional and motivational difficulties the child may have in relation to motor tasks.
Features
- Norms based on a sample of 1320 collected jointly in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
- Extensive international research built over the previous version of the assessment and this version – featuring in over 500 studies.
- Numerous translations worldwide.
Test content and structure
The test contains 10 tasks for each of 3 age ranges: 3 – 6 years; 7 – 11 years and 12 – 25 years. The tasks cover the following 3 areas:
- Manual Dexterity
- Aiming & Catching (ball skills)
- Balance (static and dynamic).
Total standard scores and percentiles are provided. A profile of a child’s performance over the different sections of the test can be examined.
The assessment is paralleled by an observational approach to perceptual-motor aspects and emotional and motivational difficulties the child may have in relation to motor tasks.
The Movement ABC-3 Checklists
The Movement ABC-3 Checklists provide a means for assessing movement in everyday situations in which the child or young adult participates.
Use the Checklist to:
- Assess groups of students in classroom situations
- Obtain parents’ or teachers’ views on a young person’s movement in everyday settings
- Measure the extent to which a young person’s attitudes and feelings about motor tasks are situation-specific or more generalized
