Batelle Developmental Inventory (BDI-3)

Title of Assessment 

• Batelle Developmental Inventory (BDI-3)

Author(s) 

•  Jean Newborg

Year of Publication/Publisher 

•  2020

• Riverside Insights

Identify Type of Assessment 

• observation-based

• standardized

• norm-referenced

Cost (identify source) & How to Access Assessment (include link if possible) 

•  BDI-3_basic pricing sheet_Fall 2021.pdf (hubspotusercontent30.net)  

• The link above shoes the many different options in pricing and booklets. Prices vary depending on the product and subscription someone is looking for. This includes physical or digital copies, training, kits, etc.

Population (who it is appropriate for [age, diagnosis, etc.])  

• Birth to 7 years 11 months old

• IDDs

• children experiencing delays in any of the domains of developmental the BDI-3 looks at

• Can be used on typically developing children to see where they are developmentally

Appropriate Settings (potential practice settings appropriate to administer assessment in) 

•  home health

• inpatient/outpatient OT

• School-based

• special education 

Purpose of Assessment & Function(s)/Area(s) Assessed  

• This assessment assesses 5 domains of development:

  • • adaptive (self-care, personal responsibility)

    • social-emotional (adult interaction, peer interaction, self-concept and social role)

    • communication (receptive and expressive)

    • motor (gross, fine, perceptual motor)

    • cognitive (attention and memory, reasoning and academic skills, perception and concepts)

• The BDI-3 manual provides 5 main purposes

  • • assessment of typically developing children

    • assessment and identification of children with disabilities or developmental delays

    • planning and providing instruction and intervention

    • monitoring progress

    • evaluation of programs serving children

• The BDI-3 covers a range of skills that help administrators reach a conclusion on relative strengths and delays along with identifying areas for learning to take place in typically developing children

• The BDI-3 helps develop IEPs and IFSPs and create instructional activities related to the objectives identified in these plans.   

Administration (time to administer, group/individual, if there are subtests, can they be completed individually, are there specific instructions to ensure standardization, etc.) 

•  5 domains assessed:

  • adaptive (ADP)

  • social-emotional (S-E)

  • Communication (COM)

  • Motor (MOT)

  • Cognitive (COG)

• 60-90 minutes to administer

• This assessment is to be completed in a private room with a trained and qualified professional and a parent observing. 

• The assessment is standardized, so the administer will follow the step-by-step instructions listed in the manual, and must have all items listed in the test book. This includes all stimulus materials, visuals, toys, and other manipulatives in the exact order and arrangement as provided in the assessment instruction manual.

User Qualifications  

• Training and experience in administering the BDI-3 along with pediatric experience

  • preschool, kindergarten, or primary school teacher

  • infant interventionalist

  • special education teacher

  • occupational therapist

  • adaptive physical education specialist

  • qualified health professional 

Materials Required  

• Examiners manual 

• 5 test item booklets (1 for each domain) 

• record form 

• student workbook 

• Presentation cards that have images for cognitive domain 

• Carrying case for test booklet 

• Manipulative kit  

• Stimulus book 

• baby

• bell

• 9 blocks

• bottle with a neck

• 18 color clips

• clipboard

• cloth square/handkerchief

• 4 crayons

• 2 cups

• form board

• large foam ball

• 2 markers

• mirror

• Olivia and Heather are Friends book, magazine, or electronic reading device 

• 2 different sized paper pads

• sharpened pencil

• unsharpened pencil

• raisin or miniature marshmallow

• ring

• 4 round beads

• scissors

• set of 4 stacking rings and post

• 16 red geometric shapes

• 18 yellow geometric shapes

• shoe

• 2 shoelaces

• small bag

• small pen

• spoon

• stopwatch/timing device

• tape

• tennis ball

• texture card

• toy of interest to the child

• plastic carrying case

Scoring Procedure (how is assessment scored and what does score indicate)  

• After all subdomains are administered, the examiner will complete the hand-scoring procedure using summary grids in the record form. All scores are found in the norms and score conversion manual provided in the test kit. Hand-scoring involves the child's exact chronological age and calculated raw score totals which leads to derived scale scores, age equivalents (AEs), developmental quotients (DQs), percentile ranks, and confidence intervals. Scores provide a sum of scaled scores, DQs, percentile rank, and 95% confidence intervals. Then combining scores from each domain will find the developmental total. 

Psychometrics/Standardization (norms, reliability/validity studies) 

• Unable to find psychometrics on the BDI-3

• for it to be reliable, due to its standardization, administer must follow step-by-step instructions

Strengths & Weaknesses of Assessment  

•    strengths

  • provides great insight on developmental quotients and developmental skills and abilities

•  weaknesses

  •  lengthy to administer

  • standardization instructions can be hard to follow so exactly 

References 

• Battelle Developmental Inventory, third edition (BDI-3). Battelle Developmental Inventory - 3rd Edition (BDI-3) | Assess Developmental Milestones.  https://riversideinsights.com/battelle_3e 

• BDI-3 product descriptions & pricing.  https://f.hubspotusercontent30.net/hubfs/7083436/BDI-3_basic  

• Newborg, Jean (2020). Batelle Developmental Inventory 3rd edition. Riverside Insights.