The BELT-3 has two subtests that cover a variety of linguistic areas: Lexical Semantics (e.g.,nouns, verbs, categories, functions, prepositions) and Morphology and Syntax (e.g., verb usage/tense, auxiliaries, modals, copulas, comparatives/superlatives, negation, questions). The BELT-3 can be used to identify young children who have expressive language impairments, to plan interventions, and to represent expressive language ability in research studies.
New Features
An all-new standardization sample (2014 to 2016) was collected
The picture book illustrations have been enhanced and colorized to make them more appealing to young children
Administration time has been reduced by the addition of ceiling rules in many of the test sections
The Lexical Semantics subtest has been expanded to include the naming of adjectives and synonyms, as well as more difficult items, to span a wider developmental range
The Morphology and Syntax subtest has been expanded to include phrase expansions, simple declarative sentence forms, and compound and complex sentences to capture a wider range of grammatical structures
All-new item analysis and item bias studies provide evidence of content-description validity
Enhanced reliability and validity studies were prepared, including diagnostic accuracy analyses, which are considered the most rigorous techniques for establishing a test’s validity.
The BELT-3 has two subtests that cover a variety of linguistic areas: Lexical Semantics (e.g.,nouns, verbs, categories, functions, prepositions) and Morphology and Syntax (e.g., verb usage/tense, auxiliaries, modals, copulas, comparatives/superlatives, negation, questions). The BELT-3 can be used to identify young children who have expressive language impairments, to plan interventions, and to represent expressive language ability in research studies.
New Features
An all-new standardization sample (2014 to 2016) was collected
The picture book illustrations have been enhanced and colorized to make them more appealing to young children
Administration time has been reduced by the addition of ceiling rules in many of the test sections
The Lexical Semantics subtest has been expanded to include the naming of adjectives and synonyms, as well as more difficult items, to span a wider developmental range
The Morphology and Syntax subtest has been expanded to include phrase expansions, simple declarative sentence forms, and compound and complex sentences to capture a wider range of grammatical structures
All-new item analysis and item bias studies provide evidence of content-description validity
Enhanced reliability and validity studies were prepared, including diagnostic accuracy analyses, which are considered the most rigorous techniques for establishing a test’s validity.
