Biks and Gutches New Edition Update: New Edition

Biks and Gutches is an easy—to—administer—and—score task. It looks too simple to be very useful but with it we can easily predict which young children need extra help with learning English. Giving this assessment to individual children will help the teacher become a better judge of how a child’s oral language is changing.

• The items can be used to evaluate whether a new teaching programme is having any effect. Change can be captured over two points in time.
• If the school has introduced some...