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Your Guide to
AEPS®-3
AEPS®-3 helps early childhood programs reimagine their practices and do better.
AEPS-3 gives you the most accurate, useful child data
and a proven way to turn data into action across everything you do.
AEPS-3 Helps You
- Collect the assessment data you need
- Link assessment data to a tiered curriculum
- Track and support emerging skills
- Strengthen preacademic skills
- Check for school readiness
- Actively involve families with handouts, forms, and reports
- Streamline reporting and data management with AEPS®i, the user-friendly web-based system
Exciting Updates
- One seamless system for birth to six years
- Two new test areas—Literacy and Math
- Ready-Set—a shorter measure focused on school readiness skills
- Reimagined, tiered curriculum organized around routines and activities
AEPS-3 Test
- Criterion-referenced and curriculum-based
- One continuous assessment for birth to six years
- Expanded difficulty range, with more items at the upper and lower ends
- New items reflecting current expectations for young children
AEPS-3 Test
- Refined, clearer criteria and more examples
- Updated illustrations
- Eligibility cutoffs available (no age equivalents)
8 Test Areas, 407 Items, 0–6 years
▪ Fine Motor (31 items in 4 strands)
▪ Gross Motor (65 items in 3 strands)
▪ Adaptive (53 items in 4 strands)
▪ Social-Emotional (61 items in 5 strands)
▪ Social-Communication (49 items in 4 strands)
▪ Cognitive (50 items in 5 strands)
▪ Math (41 items in 4 strands)
6 Updated Areas
Fine Motor A. Reach, Grasp, and Release
Gross Motor A. Body Control and Weight Transfer
B. Movement and Coordination C. Active Play
Adaptive A. Eating and Drinking
B. Personal Care Routines C. Dressing and Undressing
D. Personal Safety
Social-Emotional A. Interactions with Adults
B. Social-Emotional Expression and Regulation
C. Interactions with Peers
D. Independent and Group Participation
E. Meeting Social Expectations
Social-Communication A. Early Social Communication
B. Communicative Understanding
C. Communicative Expression
D. Social Use of Language
Cognitive A. Sensory Exploration B. Imitation and Memory
C. Conceptual Knowledge D. Reasoning
E. Scientific Discovery
New Literacy Area
Literacy
A. Awareness of Print Concepts B. Phonological Awareness C. Alphabet Knowledge D. Vocabulary and Story Comprehension E. Writing
New Math Area
Math
A. Counting B. Quantitative Relations C. Reading and Writing Numbers D. Addition and Subtraction
Child Observation Data Form
- 3-point scoring system
- Qualified scoring for emerging skills (“1”) to indicate if incomplete or done with assistance
- Available in English and Spanish
Assessment Activities
- Assessment activities help providers efficiently use observation to complete the AEPS-3 Test for up to 5 children at once
- 10 center-based activities
- 10 home-based activities
- Available on AEPS-3 Forms USB and in AEPSi
Ready-Set
- Brief assessment and progress monitoring measure
- Emphasizes skills essential for school readiness and early school success
- 40 developmentally and academically challenging goals from AEPS-3 Test
Ready-Set
Goals from all 8 areas Fine Motor—2
▪ Fine Motor—2
▪ Gross Motor—3
▪ Adaptive—2
▪ Social-Emotional—8
Social-Communication—3
▪ Social-Communication—3
▪ Cognitive—6
▪ Cognitive—6
▪ Literacy—10
▪ Math—6
Example goals 2. Holds writing tool using three-finger grasp to write or draw
Uses culturally appropriate social dining skills
Maintains cooperative activity
Resolves conflicts using negotiation
Uses language to initiate and sustain social interaction
Names all uppercase and lowercase letters of alphabet
Ready-Set
- Useful in preschool and Head Start classrooms for children who may not need full AEPS-3 assessment
- Seamless to move to AEPS-3 Test for a child as needed
- Links to tiered AEPS-3 Curriculum
Ready-Set
- Corresponding set of assessment activities available
- 4 center-based, 3 home-based
- Ready-Set Family Assessment of Child Skills form
- Available in English and Spanish
New Materials for Families
- Now 3 forms for families
- Family Report (formerly Part I of Family Report)
- Family Assessment of Child Skills (formerly Part II of Family Report)
- Child Progress Record
- New handouts for working with families
- All available in English and Spanish on AEPS-3 Forms USB
Family Report
Collects information about child and family and child’s participation in activities and routines
Family Assessment of Child Skills
Collects information about child’s developmental skills
Child Progress Record
Report for families to show skills and growth over time
New Family Handouts
Handouts to enhance communication with families
AEPS-3 Curriculum
- Guided by multi-tiered systems of support, blended practices, and activity-based intervention frameworks
- 3 levels
- Beginning—infant and very early skills (birth to 18 months developmentally)
- Growing—toddler and early skills (18 months to 3 years developmentally)
- Ready—preschool and school preparation skills (3 to 6 years developmentally)
AEPS-3 Curriculum
Includes content for 18 routines & activities
▪ Active & Outdoor Play ▪ Arrival & Departure ▪ Art ▪ Diapering, Toileting, & Handwashing ▪ Bath Time ▪ Dramatic Play ▪ Block Play ▪ Dressing ▪ Field Trips ▪ Meals & Snacks ▪ Music & Movement ▪ Technology ▪ Science ▪ Writing
AEPS-3 Curriculum
Includes universal, targeted, and specialized strategies for each routine/activity
AEPS-3 Curriculum
- Included for each routine/activity:
- Description
- Concurrent skills by AEPS-3 area
- Universal strategies—best practices for all children
- Focused strategies—for teaching some children who are struggling
- Specialized strategies—for teaching individual children who need intensive support
AEPS-3 Curriculum
Includes skills matrix to identify which routines & activities in 3 curriculum levels address specific skills
AEPS-3 Complete Kit
Everything you need to implement AEPS-3!
- 5 Volumes (User’s Guide, Assessment, Curriculum—Beginning, Curriculum—Growing, Curriculum—Ready)
- Two 5-packs of Child Observation Data Form
- One 10-pack of Family Report
- One 10-pack of Ready-Set
- Pack of 9 Quick Reference Guides
- USB with AEPS-3 forms in English and Spanish, plus additional resources Stock #: 55187 $499.00
Volumes 1 & 2
Overview of AEPS-3 Test and detailed guidance on how to administer and score it
Guidance for using the AEPS-3 system, supporting family engagement, and understanding AEPS-3 research Stock #: 55194 $50.00 Stock #: 55200 $100.00
Volumes 3, 4, & 5
Stock #: 55217 $50.00 Stock #: 55224 $50.00 Stock #: 55231 $50.00 Universal, focused, and specialized strategies for 18 routines and activities Includes Skills Matrix to show where to find AEPS-3 Test items within volumes
AEPS-3 Forms USB
Contains PDF masters of all AEPS-3 forms, handouts, and assessment activities
AEPS-3 Quick Reference Guides
- On-the-go guides provide all AEPS-3 Test items and criteria in clear, convenient format
- Helpful reference as users observe children and administer the test
- Pack includes 9 separate laminated guides, one for each developmental area and one for Ready-Set Stock #: 55309 $30.00
AEPSi is better than ever, too!
- Completely redesigned, mobile-friendly system
- Time-saving features for streamlined test administration
- Automated scoring
- Robust reporting
Learn more and join a live demo! bpub.fyi/AEPSi
AEPS-3 Training
- Training Institutes
- Live, virtual, two-day training
- Virtual seminars for your organization
- AEPS-3 Seminar
- AEPSi Seminar (coming soon)
- Online interrater reliability certification