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
▪ 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)

▪ Literacy
(57 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
▪ Gross Motor—3
▪ Adaptive—2
▪ Social-Emotional—8
▪ Social-Communication—3
▪ Cognitive—6
▪ Literacy—10
▪ Math—6

Example goals

2. Holds writing tool using three-finger grasp

3. Uses culturally appropriate social dining skills

4. Maintains cooperative activity

5. Resolves conflicts using negotiation

6. Uses language to initiate and sustain social interaction

7. Names all uppercase and lowercase letters of alphabet

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
▪ Bath Time
▪ Circle Time
▪ Diapering, Toileting, & Handwashing
▪ Block Play
▪ Dressing
▪ Field Trips
▪ Meals & Snacks
▪ Music & Movement
▪ Nap & Sleep
▪ Technology
▪ 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 Products

• AEPS-3 Complete Kit
• AEPS-3 volumes
• AEPS-3 form packs
• AEPS-3 Forms USB
• AEPS-3 Quick Reference Guides

Available Now!

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

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.

Volumes 3, 4, & 5

Universal, focused, and specialized strategies for 18 routines and activities

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

AEPSi will be better than ever, too!

• Completely redesigned AEPSi interface
• Mobile-optimized for phones and tablets
• Family login for AEPS-3 family reporting
• Launching May 2022

AEPS-3 Training

• AEPS-3 Institute – July 26—27, 2022
• Live, virtual, two-day training
• $495.00 per person
• Virtual seminars for your organization
• Self-paced, AEPS-3 introductory online course (coming)
• Updated interrater reliability certification (coming)

Questions?