About the Measure
| Domains | Omnibus |
| Subscales | Not examined |
| Target Construct | Oral language: Expressive and receptive language skills. Literacy: Reading (for older children). Social emotional: Self-help. Numeracy (for older children). |
| Description | Designed to replace informal milestones checklists with highly accurate items known to predict developmental status. Each item on the PEDS:DM taps a different developmental domain (fine motor, gross motor, expressive language, receptive language, self-help, social-emotional, and for older children, reading and math). |
| Test Authors | Robert Shaw, N. S. |
| Publisher | Available at www.pedtest.com (2008) |
| Psychometry | Not evaluated as no UK norms |
| Implementation | Not evaluated as no UK norms |
Implementation details
| Respondent | Not examined |
| Prior knowledge Required | Not examined |
| Scoring | Not examined |
| Time | Not examined |
| Age | Birth to 7 years and 11 months. |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | NO: EXCLUDED |
| Norm / Criterion referenced | Norm referenced |
| Standardisation sample | 1619 |
| Reliability | Not examined |
| Criterion validity | Not examined |
| Construct validity | Not examined |
| Concurrent validity | Not examined |