Phonological Assessment Battery

About the measure

Rating Psychometric

Rating Implementation

Subscales

Subtests examining a range of aspects of phonological skills including blending and phonological working memory

Target construct

Literacy: Alliteration, Naming speed, Rhyme, Spoonerisms, Fluency, Non-word reading, Blending. Phonological WM, Phoneme segmentation and Phoneme deletion.

Test Authors

Gibbs, S. & Dodman, S

Publisher

GL-Education

Implementation

AgeⓘAge (in years) covered by the survey. Using the measure outside this age range may result in inaccurate information.

5 years to 11 years year(s)

Prior knowledge required

Speech and language therapists, educational psychologists, experienced ASfL teachers

ScoringⓘStandardised: Can easily be summed or averaged Complex: Requires judgement or assessment on behalf of the scorer

Orally presented which requires training – scoring transparent

TimeⓘAn estimate of the time (in minutes) taken for an individual to complete one survey

Norm referenced min(s)

Psychometric

UK normsⓘWhether the measure has been calibrated with a UK sample (as opposed to generating psychometric details from a Foreign (e.g. USA) sample).

YES

Norm / Criterion referenced

Norm referenced

Standardisation sample

Insufficient data in the public domain to evaluate.

ReliabilityⓘWhere observations (e.g. teacher or peer report rather than self report) are used, this measure of reliability indicates how closely related each score is. A higher value suggests a more reliable measure.

Cronbach’s alpha (α) as a measure of internal reliability, with values for the rhyme subtest ranging from α=.89 – .95 across four age groups

Criterion validityⓘAn assessment of how well the measures relates to other, well-validated assessments.

Insufficient data in the public domain to evaluate

Construct validityⓘFurther to the use of CFA and EFA, this reports any details demonstrating how well the measure is seen to represent the conceptual domain it comes from.