The Early Screening Inventory | Third Edition

ESI-3

Samuel J. Meisels, EdD, Dorothea B. Marsden, MEd, Laura W. Henderson, Martha S. Wiske

The Early Screening Inventory, Third Edition (ESI™-3) is an individually administered screening instrument that helps identify children who may need special education services. Guidance on using this test in your telepractice.

Publication date: 2019

Age range: ESI-P Preschool ages 3:0–4:5; ESI-K Kindergarten ages 4:6–5:11

Scores/interpretation: Cutoff scores based on age norms

Qualification level: A Additional information

Completion time: 15–20 minutes per child

Administration: Individual; paper-and-pencil and online

Scoring options: Manual or Digital scoring. Digital score report with parent-child activities, and parent questionnaire report.

Norms: 2018

Other languages: English and Spanish

Telepractice: Guidance on using this test in your telepractice

ESI™-3 is a revision of the successful ESI™-R, a popular developmental screening instrument designed to be individually administered to children ages 3:0–5:11. It identifies children who may need special education services in order to perform successfully in school.

The advantages of parent involvement.

The ESI-3 now includes a questionnaire to capture the primary caregivers' perceptions of the child's development. Adapted from the ESI-R Parent Questionnaire, the ESI-3 Parent Questionnaire has added new items that reflect current research in social-emotional development and adaptive behaviors (e.g., interactions with adults and peers, social communication, and self-help skills).

Scoring & Reporting

ESI-3 is available on Q-global®, Pearson's web-based administration, scoring, and reporting system. It enables you to quickly assess and efficiently organize examinee information, generate scores, and produce accurate, comprehensive reports anywhere, anytime, on any Internet-connected device.

Score Report: Online-generated report which includes research-based parent-child activities.

Parent Questionnaire Report: Details responses to the parent questionnaire, a qualitative questionnaire to capture the primary caregivers' perceptions of the child's development.

Manual Entry: Option to use paper forms to administer the questionnaires, and the Q-global platform to score and generate reports.

What's new with ESI-3?

Latest norms and validation studies
Additional content to support social-emotional learning
Administration in English or Spanish for dual-language settings (in digital and paper and pencil)
- Digital administration, scoring, and reporting
- Paper and pencil administration and scoring
Revised Parent Questionnaire
Research-based intervention recommendations in the form of parent-child activities

Sample Reports

Resources

The following resources are available for ESI-3.

Product Announcement
Information Sheet
Kindergarten Entry Assessments
Video: Introducing ESI-3
Video: Dr. Samuel Meisels - The history and life of the Early Screening Inventory Shortly after completing his doctorate at Harvard University in 1974 and becoming the Director of the Eliot-Pearson Children's School, Dr. Meisels received a call from the Special Education Director in a neighboring school district with a high percentage of ELLs looking for a screening tool that could be used for the 1,000+ students coming in — and those already enrolled. Dr. Meisels soon discovered that what was already available was woefully inadequate. Find out what happened next!
Video: Dr. Samuel Meisels: Characteristics of an Effective and Reliable Developmental Screener Dr. Samuel Meisels, the author of the Early Screening Inventory, Third Edition (ESI-3), discusses the four key characteristics that you should be looking for in an effective developmental screener. Find out what sets an effective developmental screener apart.

Through extensive field research and development of the ESI-3, we gathered your frequently asked questions.