About the Measure
| Domains | Language |
| Subscales | No |
| Target Construct | Oral language: expressive discourse skills. |
| Description | The purpose of the test is to ascertain in a simple form the ability to give a coherent description of a continuous series of events. The analysis of the children’s retell provides information about the children’s integrative language skills using a naturally occurring activity. |
| Test Authors | Renfrew, C. |
| Publisher | The Centerville School Delaware (1994 (All info refers to this edition)) |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| Respondent | Child |
| Prior knowledge Required | Recommendations regarding who would be qualified to administer the test are not specified. |
| Scoring | Scoring unreliable |
| Time | Administration time is not specified, however, it appears to take less than 10 minutes. |
| Age | 3 years and 6 months to 7 years |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | YES |
| Norm / Criterion referenced | Norm referenced |
| Standardisation sample | 1993, N= 573 |
| Reliability | Twenty-seven children ranging in age from 4 years, 6 months to 6 years, 11 months were retested with a four week interval. The test-retest coefficients were: Information .7918, Sentence Length .7293, and Complexity .5825. Inter-rater reliability, Information: .92, .72 and .70, Sentence Length: .70, .83, and .81, Complexity: .22, .60. and .33 |
| Criterion validity | Insufficient data in the public domain to evaluate |
| Construct validity | The US and UK versions were correlated as follows: Information = 0.98and Sentence Length = 0.98. No other tests were reported. |
| Concurrent validity | Insufficient data in the public domain to evaluate |