Movement Assessment Battery for Children, Third Edition Checklist
Movement ABC-3 Checklist
The Movement Assessment Battery for Children, Third Edition (Movement ABC-3) Checklist provides a standardised measure of everyday gross and fine motor coordination difficulties in children and young adults ages 3–25 years. The Movement ABC-3 (Print and Digital) is now available to order!- Publication date:
- December 2023
- Age range:
- 3 to 25 years
- Scores/Interpretation:
- Total motor cut score, Domain cut scores, Non-motor factors cut score, Impact score
- Qualification level:
- A
- Completion time:
- 15 minutes
- Administration:
- Individual or group Paper and Pencil or Online via Q-global
- Scoring options:
- Hand scoring or digital scoring via Q-global
- Report Options:
- Score summary report via Q-global
- Norms:
- The Movement ABC-3 Checklist norms are based on a sample of 1067 children and young adults who were tested between August 2021 and February 2023 in the UK, Australia and New Zealand
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The Movement Assessment Battery for Children, Third Edition (Movement ABC-3) Checklist provides a standardiSed measure of everyday gross and fine motor coordination difficulties in children and young adults aged 3 – 25 years.
It categoriSes performance according to a traffic light system, with green suggesting no significant difficulties, amber indicating the need for further monitoring or assessment, and red denoting a likelihood of difficulties requiring further assessment and intervention.
The Movement ABC-3 Checklist contains 40 questions about everyday movement competence across three domains:
- Manual Dexterity (Personal care; At home/in the classroom/at work; Drawing/writing/keyboarding)
- Aiming and Catching
- Balance and Locomotion
It also provides an opportunity to note non-motor factors that may be affecting an individual’s performance of movement-related tasks, as well as the impact of motor difficulties on the individual’s daily life.
There are four versions of the Checklist:
- 3:0–6:11 years (Parent/Teacher/Other)
- 7:0–11:11 years (Parent/Teacher/Other)
- 12:0–25:11 years (Parent/Teacher/Other)
- 12:0–25:11 years (Self report )
Benefits
- Identify delayed or impaired motor competence in everyday activities
- Complements performance-based assessments to provide a holistic picture of motor performance
- Ideal for monitoring functional motor skills over time
- Widely known and respected for use in research related to motor development
- Document the impact of motor difficulties on the individual's life
- Identify non-motor factors that may be useful to consider when planning intervention
Features
The Movement ABC-3 Checklist provides a means for assessing movement in everyday situations in which a child or young adult participates. Use the Checklist to:
- Obtain parents’, teachers’, or the individual's own views about movement in everyday settings
- Measure the extent to which a young person’s attitudes and feelings about motor tasks are situation specific or more generalised ·
- Ascertain the impact of motor difficulties on an individual’s participation in everyday activities
- Assess groups of students efficiently
Scoring and Reporting
Digital administration and scoring options
The Movement ABC-3 Checklist can be administered using either paper or online via our Q-global platform. Using the Q-global platform, the questionnaire is completed on the practitioner's device, with scores automatically saved as you proceed through the items, allowing practitioners to quickly and easy generate and download a report once completed.
The following resources are available for the Movement ABC-3 Checklist.
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Yes - the digital Checklist manual is available in the Q-global resource library. It is freely available for anyone with a Q-global account.
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During standardisation, the Movement ABC-3 research team requested that two Checklists be completed for each examinee by individuals who knew them well. However, they did not specify the relationship between the examinee and the respondents. Due to the variety of respondent types, the numbers in some categories were not large enough to develop reliable norms for any group beyond the primary respondent for each Age Band. Therefore, cut-offs are provided based on the following primary respondents:
- Age Band 1: Parents
- Age Band 2: Parents
- Age Band 3: Self-reports
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