Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function®–Preschool Version

BRIEF-P captures executive function and self-regulation behaviors in everyday contexts, supporting screening, assessment, and monitoring of current executive functioning and development.

• Everyday context. Provides an ecologically valid and efficient measure of executive function in daily life, complementing clinical interviews, performance-based testing, and observational data.
• Streamlined insights. Uses one 63-item form completed by a parent, caregiver, or teacher to capture executive function behaviors in everyday settings.
• Five clinical scales. Includes five nonoverlapping clinical scales: Inhibit, Shift, Emotional Control, Working Memory, and Plan/Organize.

Turn ratings into a structured view of emerging executive function that supports next-step clinical and educational decisions.

• Assessment structure. The BRIEF-P includes one 63-item form completed by a parent, caregiver, or teacher. Five clinical scales are organized within three indexes (Inhibitory Self-Control Index, Flexibility Index, and Emergent Metacognition Index), and the Global Executive Composite.
• Score Report. Includes validity results, index T scores and percentiles, score summaries, a score profile, and item responses.
• Score Report. Includes validity information, a score summary table, a score profile, and an item response table.
• Interpretive Report. Includes Score Report content plus interpretive text.
• Built-in validity checks. Negativity and Inconsistency scales help evaluate response validity.

The BRIEF-P uses a parent, caregiver, or teacher perspective to assess executive function in the settings where preschool-age children live and learn.

• Parent, Caregiver, or Teacher Form. One 63-item form completed by a parent, caregiver, or teacher to capture everyday executive function behaviors.
• Inhibitory Self-Control Index. Measures the ability to pause, control impulses, and manage emotional reactions in daily situations. Includes the Inhibit and Emotional Control scales.
• Flexibility Index. Measures the ability to adapt actions, responses, and behavior as situations, demands, or expectations change. Includes the Shift and Emotional Control scales.
• Emergent Metacognition Index. Measures the ability to hold information in mind to complete a task, and to anticipate, plan, and organize steps toward future-oriented goals. Includes the Working Memory and Plan/Organize scales.

Start with how you plan to administer BRIEF-P, then choose the scoring and report approach that fits your workflow.

• Digital administration and scoring. Use the i-Admin in PARiConnect, then generate the desired Score or Interpretive Report.
• Print administration and hand-scoring. Start with the BRIEF-P Print Administration Kit for first-time administration. For reordering, replenish with BRIEF-P Rating Forms and Scoring Summary/Profile Forms as needed. Print administration with digital reporting Transfer print-form responses to PARiConnect when you want a generated Score or Interpretive Report.
• Report options. Choose a Score Report for score outputs and a profile. Choose an Interpretive Report for interpretive text alongside those results. If you purchase an Interpretive Report, you do not need to also purchase a Score Report.
• Screening. BRIEF-P does not include a screening form.