The Early Screening Inventory | Third Edition
ESI-3
The Early Screening Inventory, Third Edition (ESI™-3) is an individually administered screening instrument that helps identify children who may need special education services. Guidance on using this test in your telepractice.FILTER BY
ESI-3 Overview Live Webinar Half Day: August 19
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Qualification Level
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
12:00 pm – 3:15 pm ET
This 3-hour session provides an overview of the ESI-3 components, administration and scoring of selected tasks and items, and the use of the test results to make screening decisions.
A training consultant will contact you one week before the session date with the Zoom link for registration.
Each participant in attendance must have a purchased seat. To be eligible for available CE credits, participants are required to register individually, log in on their own device, and attend the entire session.
ESI-3 Overview Live Webinar Half Day: September 17
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Qualification Level
Thursday, September 17, 2026
9:00 am – 12:15 pm ET
This 3-hour session provides an overview of the ESI-3 components, administration and scoring of selected tasks and items, and the use of the test results to make screening decisions.
A training consultant will contact you one week before the session date with the Zoom link for registration.
Each participant in attendance must have a purchased seat.
ESI-3 Overview Live Webinar 3 Hours
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Qualification Level
This 3-hour session provides an overview of the ESI-3 components, administration and scoring of selected tasks and items, and the use of the test results to make screening decisions. Price includes up to 40 people per session.
Training orders will be processed within 5-7 business days of order placement. A training consultant will contact you to coordinate your training. Training dates are scheduled no earlier than 5 weeks from order placement.
ESI-3 Administration and Scoring Live Webinar 6 Hours
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Qualification Level
This 6-hour session will prepare participants to implement the ESI-3 in their early childhood program. Participants will learn the essentials for administering and scoring the tasks and items on the ESI-3 domains (Visual-Motor/Adaptive, Language and Cognition, and Motor) and for administering and scoring the ESI-3 Parent Questionnaire. This hands-on training offers participants opportunities to practice administration and scoring ESI-3 tasks and items. Price includes up to 40 people per session.
Training orders will be processed within 5-7 business days of order placement. A training consultant will contact you to coordinate your training. Training dates are scheduled no earlier than 5 weeks from order placement.
ESI-3 Administration and Scoring In Person 6 Hours
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Qualification Level
This 6-hour session will prepare participants to implement the ESI-3 in their early childhood program. Participants will learn the essentials for administering and scoring the tasks and items on the ESI-3 domains (Visual-Motor/Adaptive, Language and Cognition, and Motor) and for administering and scoring the ESI-3 Parent Questionnaire. This hands-on training offers participants opportunities to practice administration and scoring ESI-3 tasks and items. Price includes up to 40 people per session.
Training orders will be processed within 5-7 business days of order placement. A training consultant will contact you to coordinate your training. Training dates are scheduled no earlier than 5 weeks from order placement.
- Publication date:
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2019
- Age range:
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ESI-P Preschool ages 3:0–4:5; ESI-K Kindergarten ages 4:6–5:11
- Scores/interpretation:
- Cutoff scores based on age norms
- Qualification level:
- A
- Completion time:
- 15–20 minutes per child
- Administration:
- Individual; paper-and-pencil and online
- Scoring options:
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Manual or Digital scoring. Digital score report with parent-child activities, and parent questionnaire report.
- Other languages:
- English and Spanish
- Telepractice:
- Guidance on using this test in your telepractice
ESI™-3 is a revision of the successful ESI™-R, a popular developmental screening instrument designed to be individually administered to children ages 3:0–5:11. It identifies children who may need special education services in order to perform successfully in school.
The advantages of parent involvement.
The ESI-3 now includes a questionnaire to capture the primary caregivers' perceptions of the child's development. Adapted from the ESI-R Parent Questionnaire, the ESI-3 Parent Questionnaire has added new items that reflect current research in social-emotional development and adaptive behaviors (e.g., interactions with adults and peers, social communication, and self-help skills).
Scoring & Reporting
ESI-3 is available on Q-global®, Pearson's web-based administration, scoring, and reporting system. It enables you to quickly assess and efficiently organize examinee information, generate scores, and produce accurate, comprehensive reports anywhere, anytime, on any Internet-connected device.
Score Report: Online-generated report which includes research-based parent-child activities.
Parent Questionnaire Report: Details responses to the parent questionnaire, a qualitative questionnaire to capture the primary caregivers' perceptions of the child's development.
Manual Entry: Option to use paper forms to administer the questionnaires, and the Q-global platform to score and generate reports.
What's new with ESI-3?
- Latest norms and validation studies
- Additional content to support social-emotional learning
- Administration in English or Spanish for dual-language settings (in digital and paper and pencil)
- Digital administration, scoring, and reporting
- Paper and pencil administration and scoring
- Revised Parent Questionnaire
- Research-based intervention recommendations in the form of parent-child activities
Sample Reports
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Resources
The following resources are available for ESI-3.
- Preschool‑readiness assessments
- Information Sheet
- Video: Introducing ESI-3
- Video: Dr. Samuel Meisels - The history and life of the Early Screening Inventory Shortly after completing his doctorate at Harvard University in 1974 and becoming the Director of the Eliot-Pearson Children's School, Dr. Meisels received a call from the Special Education Director in a neighboring school district with a high percentage of ELLs looking for a screening tool that could be used for the 1,000+ students coming in — and those already enrolled. Dr. Meisels soon discovered that what was already available was woefully inadequate. Find out what happened next!
- Video: Dr. Samuel Meisels: Characteristics of an Effective and Reliable Developmental Screener Dr. Samuel Meisels, the author of the Early Screening Inventory, Third Edition (ESI-3), discusses the four key characteristics that you should be looking for in an effective developmental screener. Find out what sets an effective developmental screener apart.
Through extensive field research and development of the ESI-3, we gathered your frequently asked questions.
All items remain the same with the exception of the blocks.
Options available:
- Age appropriate kit with all manipulatives and forms
Option to add a scoring subscription for manual entry to generate reports - Manipulatives Kit + Digital manual + Q-global usages
0158245873 ESI-3 Preschool and Kindergarten Manipulatives Kit
0150042981 ESI-3 Q-global Digital Manual
0150023251 ESI-3 Q-global Score Summary Report
015002326X ESI-3 Q-global Parent Questionnaire Report
- Age appropriate kit with all manipulatives and forms
Yes, you can purchase any combination of products. Some customers prefer to have a paper manual, and then purchase digital administration usages.
