Early Repetition Battery | Early Years Measures Databasae | Education Endowment Foundation

Domains	Language
Subscales	No
Target Construct	Oral language: Repetition accuracy at word and sentence level
Description	A UK-developed and standardised test battery, based on a nationally stratified sample of children. It assesses phonological and morphosyntactic processing abilities in children.
Test Authors	Seeff/Gabriel, B., Chiat, S. & Roy, P. (2008)
Publisher	Pearson (2008)
Psychometry
Implementation

Respondent	Child
Prior knowledge Required	Speech language therapists. Linguistics and phonetics knowledge is required
Scoring	Clear and transparent
Time	10 to 15 minutes
Age	2 to 6 years

UK norms	YES
Norm / Criterion referenced	Norm referenced
Standardisation sample	396
Reliability	Reliability: Preschool Repetition Test .89; Sentence Imitation Task sentence .92; Sentence Imitation Task content word .95; Sentence Imitation Task function word .95; Sentence Imitation Task inflection .89 Test-retest: Preschool Repetition Test .81; Sentence Imitation Task sentence .88; Sentence Imitation Task content word .80; Sentence Imitation Task function word 78; Sentence Imitation Task inflection .92 Interrater reliability: PSRep .97; SIT sentence .98; SIT content word .99; SIT function word .99; SIT inflection .98
Criterion validity	Insufficient data in the public domain to evaluate
Construct validity	Insufficient data in the public domain to evaluate
Concurrent validity	Preschool Repetition Test - Sentence Imitation Task ranged .48 to .53 Sentence Imitation Task - Preschool Language Scale-4 ranged .45 to .59 Preschool Repetition Test - Preschool Language Scale-4 .32