BASC-3 Family of Assessments (2024)

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The BASC-3 family of assessment starts with universally screening groups of children. Each additional component allows you to conduct individual comprehensive evaluations, plan and deliver effective interventions, and monitor progress all within one flexible, integrated system.

  • BASC-3
  • BASC-3 BESS
  • BASC-3 Flex Monitor
  • BASC-3 PRQ
  • BASC-3 Intervention Guide and Materials

Identify and manage behavioral and emotional strengths and weaknesses

It goes without saying that children's behavioral and emotional challenges can negatively affect their academic performance and social interactions. Finding the right tools to assess and treat them while monitoring their progress is critical to helping them maintain and establish positive relationships and success in school.

The Behavior Assessment System for Children, Third Edition (BASC-3), is the most widely used test for identifying and managing behavioral and emotional strengths and weaknesses while enabling children and adolescents to reach their full potential.

Working Together

The BASC-3 family of assessments allows you to move through the full screening, assessing, intervening and monitoring (SAIM) cycle, tracking progress along the way and obtaining a complete picture of the young person you are working with.

Behavior Assessment System for Children | Third Edition (BASC-3)

A comprehensive set of rating scales and forms, BASC-3 helps you understand the behaviors and emotions of children and adolescents. Analyzes the child's behavior from three perspectives – teacher, parent, self-report.

Screen

BASC-3 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BASC-3 BESS)

The BASC-3 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BASC-3 BESS) offers a reliable, quick, and systematic way to determine behavioral and emotional strengths and weaknesses of children and adolescents in preschool through high school. Analyzes the child's behavior from three perspectives – teacher, parent, self-report.

BESS College Student Self-Report Form

College and university leaders are increasingly concerned about the mental health needs of their students as they return to campus and encounter a "new normal." Students also are aware of their increasing mental health needs and looking to their colleges and universities to provide support. The BESS College Form provides a quick, efficient, valid, and reliable way for counseling centers and other student health services to screen large numbers of students while guaranteeing security and privacy. Campus-wide mental health surveillance with the BESS provides information for meeting the individual mental health needs of students and for planning mental health prevention and promotion activities for the entire campus.

Assess & Monitor

BASC-3 Parenting Relationship Questionnaire (BASC-3 PRQ)

The BASC-3 Parenting Relationship Questionnaire (BASC-3 PRQ) captures parental perspective on the parent-child relationship.

BASC-3 Flex Monitor (BASC-3)

BASC-3 Flex Monitor is a new, flexible way to monitor changes in behavior and emotional functioning. It enables psychologists and professionals in school or clinical environments to monitor and track effects of behavioral intervention plans.

Rating Scales and Forms

Analyze the child's behavior from three perspectives—Self, Teacher, and Parent using a comprehensive set of rating scales and forms to help you understand the behaviors and emotions of children and adolescents.

Emotional Disturbance Qualification Scales

BASC-3 now includes a new set of scales to help identify and assist students with Emotional Disturbance.

Students with Emotional Disturbance due to pervasive emotional, behavioral, and social issues often face a more difficult learning path than other students. Many BASC-3 customers have asked for a scale to aid in identifying students who qualify for added support so they can get the help they need to succeed.

EDQs Align with Constructs of ED

The BASC-3 Emotional Disturbance Qualification scales (EDQs) reflect new combinations of existing BASC-3 clinical and adaptive scales, grouped specifically to align with the constructs of Emotional Disturbance (ED), as defined by the Individual with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA, 2004). The EDQs cover five out of the six IDEA criterion for ED, including:

  • Unsatisfactory Interpersonal Relationships
  • Inappropriate Behavior/Feelings
  • Unhappiness or Depression
  • Physical Symptoms or Fears
  • Schizophrenia and Related Disorders of Thought

Intervention & Support

BASC-3 Intervention Guide & Materials provides school psychologists with extensive information on the most common behavioral and emotional issues.

Documentation Check sheets – allow case managers, psychologists, counselors, behavior coaches, or teachers to keep track of strategy use in order to better assess student outcomes. We know from the research and practical experiences that the outcome of intervention is directly tied to the use of the intervention. This check sheet can document strategy use and develop professional skills in recognizing the relationship between strategy use and improved student outcomes.

Classroom Skill Builder – A complete model to take a school through tier one and tier two programming. Rationale, teacher commitment forms, processes and timelines, classroom lesson plans and small group guides allow a school to implement a full program of prevention and intervention.

BASC-3 Family of Assessments (2024)

FAQs

What is the BASC-3 assessment used for? ›

The Behavior Assessment System for Children, Third Edition (BASC-3), is the most widely used test for identifying and managing behavioral and emotional strengths and weaknesses while enabling children and adolescents to reach their full potential.

Does BASC-3 measure ADHD? ›

It is useful in the clinical diagnosis of disorders that can start in childhood or adolescence, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and depression. It can also point out issues associated with learning disabilities, such as adjustment problems (e.g low self-concept).

Is BASC-3 used for autism? ›

As you may remember from Chapter 8, the BASC-3 SOS prompts professionals toward qualitative (but not quantitative) broad categories like Inappropriate Vocalization, Repetitive Motor Movements, and Self-injurious Behavior, each of which includes several fine-grained behaviors potentially relevant regarding autism.

Is the BASC a personality assessment? ›

A review of the Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC), a multimethod, multidimensional objective personality assessment technique for children and adolescents is provided. A description of the test and analysis of its administration, scoring, and psychometric properties are presented.

Is the BASC a screening tool? ›

The BASC-3 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System is designed for schools, mental health clinics, pediatric clinics, communities, and researchers to screen for a variety of behavioral and emotional disorders that can lead to adjustment problems.

Does the BASC measure anxiety? ›

The BASC-2 assesses adaptive and problem behaviors in youth, including anxiety (Reynolds and Kamphaus, 2004). It has good concurrent validity with other child behavior rating scales (e.g. CBCL) and has been studied in ASD (Volker et al., 2010).

How to interpret BASC-3 t scores? ›

T scores between 60 and 69 indicate scores within the at-risk range. T scores at or above 70 indicate scores within the clinically significant range. A * indicates clinically significant change and reliable decrease in scores.

What is the best assessment scale for ADHD? ›

The Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale Screener (ASRS) is one of the most commonly used self-assessment tools for adult ADHD. The ASRS was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Workgroup on Adult ADHD. This tool is meant to be used with people 18 and over and assesses for the most common symptoms of ADHD.

How accurate is the BASC-3? ›

The BASC-3 scales and composites have high internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Most alpha coefficients for the BASC-3 subscales and composites exceed 0.80 and are sufficiently reliable for application to diagnostic and treatment issues.

What age is BASC-3 self for? ›

How many items are there on each of the BASC-3 Rating Forms? The number of items for the Teacher Rating Scales, Parent Rating Scales, and the Self-Report of Personality for the three age levels—preschool (ages 2 to 5), child (ages 6 to 11), and adolescent (ages 12 to 21) vary.

Is the BASC an adaptive behavior assessment? ›

The BASC-2 is a multidimensional behavior rating system that assesses clinical and adaptive features of behavior and emotional functioning via Parent Rating Scales (PRS) and Teacher Rating Scales (TRS; Reynolds & Kamphaus, 2004).

What is a BASC-3 F score? ›

The BASC-3 F Index is a classically derived infrequency scale, designed to assess the possibility that a rater has depicted a child's behavior in an inordinately negative fashion.

What are the disadvantages of BASC? ›

A repeated negative comment by users of the BASC is the absence of the narrative questions on the first page of the Child Behavior Check List. Also, the BASC self-report scales are not useful for picking up youth at risk for specific emotional disorders and drug and alcohol use.

What can the BASC-3 diagnose? ›

The BASC–3 components are also useful for assessing severe emotional disturbance. The rating scales help distinguish between children with conduct disorders or social maladjustment on the one hand and those with severe emotional/behavioral disturbance on the other, as called for by IDEA.

What are the benefits of BASC-3? ›

The BASC-3 offers a reliable, quick, and systematic way to determine behavioral and emotional strengths and weaknesses of children and adolescents in preschool through high school.

What is clinically significant on the BASC? ›

T scores between 60 and 69 indicate scores within the at-risk range. T scores at or above 70 indicate scores within the clinically significant range. A * indicates clinically significant change and reliable decrease in scores.

What do BASC scores mean? ›

The BASC II measures a student's emotional, behavioral, and adaptive functioning. The score that is used for the scale is the T-score. The T-score indicates the distance of a score from the norm group mean.

Does the BASC-3 measure adaptive behavior? ›

Teacher Rating Scales and Parent Rating Scales

The TRS and PRS assess both broad- and narrow-based behavioral and emotional domains across these settings, as well as both maladaptive and adaptive behavior.

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