Movement Assessment Battery for Children, Third Edition

The Movement Assessment Battery for Children, Third Edition (Movement ABC-3) provides an overview of gross and fine motor skills to assist in the identification of motor coordination difficulties in children and young adults.

Movement ABC-3 Benefits:

• Identifies delay or impairment in motor development
• Helps in intervention planning
• Measures change and monitors progress over time
• Quick and easy to use in research related to motor development
• Helps paint a more holistic picture of motor performance using the Checklists to complement observational assessment

The Movement ABC-3 updates include:

• Revised and updated test content and items
• New manipulatives
• Extended age range down to 3 and up to 25
• Co-collected sample between the UK and ANZ
• Unified contructs across ages

Three Movement ABC-3 subtests:

• Manual Dexterity
• Aiming & Catching
• Balance

Separate Checklists for each age band:

• Parent/Teacher/Other
• Self (age band 3 only)

Test content and structure

The test contains 10 tasks for each of 3 age ranges: 3–6 years; 7–11 years and 12–25 years. The tasks cover the following 3 areas:

• Manual Dexterity
• Aiming & Catching (ball skills)
• Balance (static and dynamic)

Total standard scores and percentiles are provided and a profile of a child’s performance over the different sections of the test can be examined.

The assessment is paralleled by an observational approach to perceptual-motor aspects and emotional and motivational difficulties the child may have in relation to motor tasks.

The Movement ABC-3 Checklists

The Movement ABC-3 Checklists provide a means for assessing movement in everyday situations in which the child or young adult participates.

Use the Checklist to:

• Assess groups of students in classroom situations
• Obtain parents’ or teachers’ views on a young person’s movement in everyday settings
• Measure the extent to which a young person’s attitudes and feelings about motor tasks are situation-specific or more generalized

Digital administration and scoring options

The Movement ABC-3 can be administered using either paper or digital record forms. Online scoring is available via Q-global® online assessment platform.

The following resources are available for MABC-3.

• MABC-2 vs. MABC-3 Comparison