Assessment Tools

Here are commonly used tools for assessing language and literacy (publisher shown in Italics). There are other tests. 

Tests of Oral Language

  • Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-4 (CELF-4) Harcourt Assessment
  • Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language - 3rd Edition (TACL) Pro-Ed
  • Comprehensive Test of Spoken Language (CASL) - ACER
  • Expressive Language Test (Includes metalinguistics) - Pro-Ed

 

Vocabulary and Word-finding

  • Peabody Picture Vocabulary test (Receptive Vocabulary) - ACER
  • Test of Word Knowledge (TOWK)- Harcourt Assessment
  • One Hundred Pictures Naming Test - ACER
  • Test of Word Finding (German) - Pro-Ed

 

Tests of Phonological Awareness

  • Phonological Awareness Test (PAT) - Pro-Ed
  • The Lindamood Auditory Conceptualisation Test (LAC-3) - Pro-Ed
  • The Sutherland Phonological Test-Revised (SPAT) - Dr R Neilsen  02 4257 8778 
  • Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP) - Pro-Ed

Tests of Auditory Processing

  • Test of Auditory Processing Skills-Third Edition (TAPS-3) - Pro-Ed 


Literacy Tests


Reading

  • Woodcock Reading Mastery tests - ACER
  • Word Attack
  • Word Identification


Passage Comprehension

  • Analysis of Reading Ability (3rd Edition) - ACER
  • Gray Oral Reading Tests-3 (GORT-3) - Pro-Ed
  • Test of Reading Comprehension (TORCH) - ACER


Spelling

  • Test of Written Spelling-4 - Pro-Ed
  • South Australian Spelling Test - ACER


Written Language

  • Test of Written Language (TOWL) - Pro-Ed


Tests of Problem Solving

  • The Test of Problem Solving - Elementary (TOPS) Pro-Ed
  • The Test of Problem Solving - Adolescent Pro-Ed


PUBLISHERS

Pro-ED
Tel: 07 5596 0966
Fax: 07 5596 0969 
www.proedaust.com.au
ACER 
Tel: 1800 338402
Fax: 03 9835 7499
www.acer.edu.au
Harcourt Assessment
Tel: 1800882 385
Fax: 02 9517 8981
www.harcourt-au.com