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THE AFRICAN EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT MEASURES RESOURCE
Child, Youth, Family and Social Development
Social science that maximizes human potential and advances the rights of vulnerable populations

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  • African Norms: This category indicates whether or not there are African norms for the measure and where the measure is normed.
  • Published African Validation Studies: This category indicates whether or not there are any published African validation studies (peer reviewed literature or manuals; monographs etc) and how many.
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While we tried to source as many records as possible, there is little doubt that we would have missed some contributions to the literature. Also since finalisation of the database in 2007, it has taken some time to set up this resource. So there will be gaps. The Discussion and Comment sections of the resource is intended for interested parties to draw attention to material we have missed by including the full reference to the research and using the categories above to report the new material. We will then update the resource with these additions from time to time.

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105 measures found
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Measures African Norms Published African Validation Studies Unpublished African Validation Studies Published African Research Studies Unpublished African Research Studies  
Activity meters Conduced in South Africa     2  
AGS Early Screening Profiles (ESP)       1  
Aptitude Tests for School Beginners - Revised (ASB) South African (All). 1   1 1
Battelle Developmental Inventory (BDI)          
Bayley Scales of Infant Development, Second Edition (BSID-II) South African (Black mainly urban & peri urban, Zulu speaking). Nigerian. 3   5 1
Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI II) N/A     2 3
Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test Second Edition (Bender Gestalt II) South African (Small Zulu sample). 2 1 1  
Boston Naming Test N/A        
Centers for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scales (CES-D) N/A     1 1
Childhood Career Development Scale (CCDS) Developed in South Africa 1      
Children's Apperception Test [1991 Revision] (C.A.T.) N/A        
Children's Behaviour Questionnaire Nigerian 2   1  
Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) N/A        
Clinical Neuropsychological Investigation instrument N/A     2  
Cognitive Abilities Test 3, British Edition (CAT3) N/A   1    
Comprehensive Trail Making Test (CTMT) NA 1   1  
Connors Rating Scales - Revised (CRS-R) N/A        
Construction Test N/A     3 2
Corsi Block Tapping Test Milner (CORSI) N/A       1
Crichton Vocabulary Scale (CVS) N/A        
Culture Fair Intelligence Test (CFIT) N/A     1  
Das-Naglieri Cognitive Assessment System (CAS) N/A 1      
Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS) N/A        
Denver II (Developmental Screening Test) N/A   2 2 3
Developmental Indicators for Assessment of Learning, Third Edition (DIAL-3) N/A        
Developmental Profile II (DP-II) N/A        
Developmental Screening Inventory (DSI) Nigerian 2      
Developmental test of Visual Perception, Second Edition (DTVP-2) N/A     1  
Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration, Fourth Edition, Revised (VMI) N/A       1
Disruptive Behaviour Rating Scale (DBRS) N/A 1      
Draw-A-Person: A Quantitative Scoring System (DAP) N/A 2 2 4 5
Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) N/A 1   1 1
ESSI Reading and Spelling Test South African (English and Afrikaans speaking children) 2 1    
Family Relations Test: Children's Version (FRT) N/A 1      
General Health Questionnaire (GSQ) N/A 3 3 1 2
General Scholastic Aptitude Test - Junior (GSAT) South African (English & Afrikaans speaking) - 'non-environmentally disadvantaged' 1 1 1  
Griffiths Mental Development Scales-Revised N/A 4 7 1+ 4
Group Test for 5/6 and 7/8 year-olds South African (White English & Afrikaans speaking).     1  
Grover-Counter Scale of Cognitive Development-Revised South African.   2    
Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery (HRNB) N/A 3   2 2
HERBST Evaluation Scale for Cognitive and Motor Development Tasks for Black Children Developed in South Africa 2 2   1
Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) N/A     3  
Home Screening Questionnaire (HSQ) N/A 1   2 1
Individual Scale for General Scholastic Aptitude (ISGSA) South African (English & Afrikaans speaking).        
Individual Scales for Xhosa, Zulu, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Tswana Speaking Pupils South African (By language group). 2      
Interaction Patterns, Language Use, Activities, Object Use Conducted in South Africa     4  
Intermediate Booklet Category Test (IBCT) N/A 1   1 1
Junior South African Individual Scales (JSAIS) South African (White, Indian and Coloured children) 5      
Katz-Zalk Prejudice Projective Test N/A     2 3
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) N/A 1   6  
Kilifi Assessment Battery ? 1   1  
Kinetic Drawing System for Family and School: A Handbook (KDS) N/A        
Leiter International Performance Scale-Revised (Leiter-R) N/A        
Lincoln-Oseretsky Motor Development Scale N/A 1   1  
Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery Children's Revision (LNNB-C) N/A 2      
McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities (MCSA) South African (Black children) 2   2  
Miller Assessment for Preschoolers (MAP) N/A        
Mother-Infant Interaction Rating System Conducted in South Africa     1  
Mother-Infant Interaction Scoring Scheme Conducted in South Africa     3  
Neale Analysis of Reading Ability, Second Revised British Edition (NARA-II) N/A 1      
Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale For Children       2 1
Paper and Pencil Games (PPG) South African (All)        
Parent as a Teacher Inventory, Revised (PAAT) N/A     1  
Parent Rating Scale of Motor and Language Development Conducted in Zanzibar, Tanzania     1  
Peer Association Conducted in South Africa     1  
Personality Inventory for Youth (PIY) N/A        
Piagetian Tasks       1 7
Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance for Young Children.       1  
Piers-Harris Childrens Self-Concept Scale, Second Edition, The Way I Feel About Myself (Piers-Harris 2) N/A     1 2
PreEgypt School Readiness Scale Developed to assess school readiness in Egypt.        
Preschool Developmental Inventory (PDI) N/A        
Preschool Racial Attitudes Measure II (PRAM II)         1
Raven's Progressive Matrices - Standard, Coloured (SPM, CPM) Ghana (thesis) 2 1 2  
Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) N/A        
Rey Complex Figure Test and Recognition Trial (RCFT) N/A       1
Reynolds Child Depression Scale (RCDS) N/A        
School-entry Group Screening Measure (SGSM) South African (?)       1
School-Readiness Evaluation by Trained Testers (SETT) South African (?) 1 1    
Selective Reminding Test N/A     1 1
Senior South African Individual Scales-Revised (SSAIS-R) South African (All & for hearing disabled) 5 1 2  
Sesame Street Formative Research Questionnaires Developed in South Africa       1
Snijders-Oomen Non-Verbal Intelligence Test-Revised (SON-R, SON- R 2? - 7) N/A   1    
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Fifth Edition (SB5) N/A        
Strive Toward Achieving Results Together (START) Developed in South Africa        
Stroop Color and Word Test N/A        
Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT) N/A        
Systemic Evaluation Grade 3 Developed in South Africa        
Takalani South Africa Child Instrument AIDS Developed in South Africa       1
Teacher & Parent Rating Scales Conducted In South Africa     1  
Test of Ability to Explain for Zulu-speaking Children (TATE-ZC) Developed in South Africa   1    
Test of Variables of Attention Version 703 (TOVA) N/A     1  
The Fagan Test of Infant Intelligence (FTII) N/A     2  
The Home Behaviour Inventory N/A     1  
The Hopkins Verbal Learning Test, Revised (HVLT-R) N/A        
The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-III (PPVT-III) South African   2    
The Personality Inventory for Children, Second Edition (PIC-2) N/A   1   2
The Scenotest: A Practical Technique for Understanding Unconscious Problems and Personality Structure N/A        
The Visual Aural Digit Span Test (VADS) N/A 1      
Trauma symptoms Checklist for Children (TSCC) N/A        
Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scales N/A     3  
Vineland Social-Emotional Early Childhood Scales (SEEC) N/A        
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Third Edition (WISC-III) Ghana (dissertation). 2 3 1 1
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence - Revised (WPPSI-R) N/A        
Wide Ranging Achievement Test 3 (WRAT3) N/A     2 1
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Revised and Expanded (WCST) N/A 1