A Diagnostic-Prescriptive Test for Kindergarten Screening

The KDI-2 is a comprehensive and time efficient screening instrument designed to assess developmental readiness skills in children ages 4-6.

The KDI-2 assesses developmental readiness across 13 areas:

• Body Awareness – assesses visual-motor skills and knowledge of body parts.
• Concept Mastery – assesses knowledge of basic kindergarten concepts.
• Form/Letter Identification - assesses knowledge of shape names and letter identification skills.
• General Information – assesses ability to recall basic information from memory.
• Gross Motor – assesses large muscle coordination.
• Memory for Sentences – assesses short-term auditory memory.
• Number Skills – assesses knowledge of basic math skills.
• Phonemic Awareness – assesses emerging phonemic awareness skills.
• Verbal Associations – assesses language-based reasoning skills.
• Visual Discrimination – assesses visual discrimination skills.
• Visual Memory – assesses visual memory skills.
• Visual-Motor Integration – assesses eye-hand coordination, drawing ability, and visual-spatial skills.
• Vocabulary – assesses knowledge of word meanings.

The KDI-2 Assessment Program Components

The KDI-2 Assessment Program™ is composed of:

• Complete KDI-2 Test Kit™ (Product #2000-1000)
  • Concept Mastery/Number Skills Stimulus Booklet with easel.
  • Visual Discrimination/Visual Memory Stimulus Booklet with easel.
  • Form Letter Identification / Visual-Motor Integration Stimulus Booklet.
  • 25 Student Response Booklets
  • Administration Manual with standardization sample norms.
  • Thirteen 1” wooden blocks for Number Skills.

• KDI-2 Student Response Booklets™ (Product #2000-2000)
  • An individual Student Response Booklet is used for each child.
  • The KDI-2 Student Response Booklets are sold in packages of 25.

• My Kindergarten Fun Books (2nd Edition)™ (Product #2000-3000)
  • This is the prescriptive portion of the test.
  • The “Fun Book: contains over 90 learning activities related to the KDI-2 areas.
  • The purpose of the “Fun Book” is to give parents and teachers a low cost set of prescriptive activities related to developmental readiness.
  • The profile of the child’s strengths and weaknesses are copied onto the back of My Kindergarten Fun Book- 2.
  • My Kindergarten Fun Books-2 are sold in packages of 25.
    
• KDI-2 Scoring and Interpretation Program for Windows™ (Product #2000-5050)
  • a database software program that stores records, prints reports, and uses standardization sample or user-generated norms.
  • Requires Windows™ 95 or higher operating system.

Origins of the test:

• The original KDI was developed by Robinson in 1976.
• The KDI was re-formatted and re-standardized by Robinson and Miller in 1986.
• The Second Edition of the KDI (KDI-2) was re-formatted, re-designed, and re-standardized in 2000.
  

What is the age range for the test?

• The KDI-2 is designed for children between the ages of 4 and 6.
• The test may be administered at the end of the preschool year through the end of the kindergarten year.
  

How long does the KDI-2 take to administer?

• It takes approximately 35 minutes to administer all 13 subtests of the KDI-2 to an individual child.
  

How is the KDI-2 typically administered?

• The KDI-2 is typically administered by a kindergarten screening team where the child rotates from station to station to completethe tests.
• The KDI-2 may also be individually administered by a trained examiner (e.g., school psychologist, educational diagnostician, speech therapist, etc.) to evaluate an individual child's development readiness skills as part of a comprehensive individual evaluation.

How is the KDI-2 Scored?

• The KDI-2 may be scored using the standardization sample norms, but it is scored best using local or national norms calculated by the KDI-2 Scoring and Interpretation Program for Windows™.
  

Is the KDI-2 a diagnostic or prescriptive test?

• The KDI-2 can best be described as a diagnostic and prescriptive assessment tool.
• The KDI-2 is diagnostic because it is a good predictor of future academic learning.
• The KDI-2 is also a good screener for potential developmentally children and potentially gifted children on either end of the developmental readiness continuum.
• The KDI-2 may be used prescriptively to identify a child's strengths and weaknesses across the 13 developmental readiness tests and link interventions to the child's educational needs.
• The KDI-2 should be used in conjunction with some prescriptive linkage such as the activities in My Kindergarten Fun Book-2.

• Low cost preview kit of the KDI-2 and the KIST. Includes sample KDI-2 Student Response Booklet, sample My Kindergarten Fun Book – Second Edition, sample reports from the KDI-2 Scoring and Interpretation Computer Scoring Program™, sample pages from the KDI-2 Administration Manual, sample KIST Rating Form, sample printouts from the KIST Scoring Programs for Windows™, technical properties of the two tests, and a discount coupon for future orders.

Includes the following KDI-2 Products:

• 1 Complete KDI-2 Test Kit with package of 25 Student Response Booklets
• 1 extra package of KDI-2 Student Response Booklets
• 2 packages of 25 My Kindergarten Fun Books – Second Edition (50 total)
• 1 site license for use of the KDI-2 Scoring and Interpretation Program for Windows™ for unlimited use up to 300 children annually.