Measuring Child Outcomes in
CSEFEL Demonstration Sites
Mary Louise Hemmeter
Patricia Snyder
Tweety Yates
Agenda
• Review expectations related to measuring
child outcomes in CSEFEL demonstration sites
• Review process for submitting data
• Review child outcome measures:
– SSIS (ages 3 years and up)
– ASQ-SE (below 3 years)
• Ask and Answer Questions
Child Measures: Purpose
• Provide information about how a program is
doing toward supporting children’s social
emotional development and addressing
challenging behavior
• Can be used to make decisions at the state,
program, or classroom levels
• Data on individual children should only be used
to identify children who might need more
support – neither tool is designed to be used for
planning instructional programs
Child Measures
• Complete at two points in time – fall and spring
• Complete after you have known the child 2
months
• Send data to Vanderbilt de-identified – no child
or teacher names should appear on the protocol
(review data tracking form)
• Data should be copied and then mailed via
overnight carrier so that it can be tracked
(address is included on a slide)
• Vanderbilt will score and send summary reports
Send Data to:
Alana Schnitz
CSEFEL Project
Vanderbilt University
230 Appleton Place
MRL Bldg., Rm 304
Nashville, TN 37203
Email Alana to alert her when you mail it:
alana.k.griffin@vanderbilt.edu)
*keep a copy and ship with a tracking number
Ages and Stages Questionnaires:
Social-Emotional
(ASQ-SE)
• Authors: Squires, J., Bricker, D., & Twombly, E.
• Publisher: Brookes
http://www.pbrookes.com/store/books/squire
s-asqse/index.htm
ASQ-SE: General Information
• Screening tool
• Social and emotional competence
– Social and emotional behaviors
– Item content addresses 7 behavioral areas
• Self-regulation, compliance, communication, adaptive
functioning, autonomy, affect, interaction with people
• 3 to 66 months
• CSEFEL will only use ASQ-SE for children < 3
years of age
Components of ASQ-SE
• ASQ-SE “box” (Starter Kit)
– 8 questionnaires
• 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48, and 60 months
– 8 corresponding scoring sheets
– User’s Guide
– CD-ROM with reproducible questionnaires
– CSEFEL has provided each state with a disk from
which you can print as many copies as needed
• English and Spanish questionnaires available
Who Completes ASQ-SE?
• For CSEFEL demonstration sites, the teacher
or caregiver
• Teachers or caregivers can complete the ASQSE; “however, it is important that caregivers
have 15-20 hours per week of contact with the
child before completing the ASQ-SE” (ASQ-SE
User’s Guide, p. 25)
• Time to Complete: 10 -15 min/questionnaire
Number of Items By Age Level
Table from: ASQ-SE User’s Guide
Administration
• Administer questionnaire that is within 3
months on either side of child’s chronological
age for 6, 12, 18, 24, and 30 month
questionnaires
• Administer questionnaire that is within 6
months on either side of the child’s
chronological age for 36, 48, and 60 month
questionnaires
• NOTE: CSEFEL will use it only for children<3
years
Guidelines for Questionnaire Use
If child’s age is between :
Use this ASQ-SE Questionnaire:
3 mo, 0 days, and 8 mo, 29 days
6 month
9 mo, 0 days and 14 mo, 29 days
12 month
15 mo, 0 days and 20 mo, 29 days
18 month
21 mo, 0 days and 26 mo, 29 days
24 month
27 mo, 0 days and 32 mo, 29 days
30 month
33 mo, 0 days and 41 mo, 29 days
36 month
42 mo, 0 days and 53 mo, 29 days
48 month – N/A for CSEFEL
54 mo, 0 days and 65 mo, 29 days
60 month – N/A for CSEFEL
From: Table 9 in ASQ-SE User’s Manual
Note: ASQ:SE questionnaires do not
correct for prematurity
ASQ Item-Response Format
• Most of the time
– Child doing the behavior most of the time, too
much, or too often
• Sometimes
– Child doing the behavior occasionally but not
consistently
• Rarely or never
– Child rarely performs the behavior or has never
performed the behavior
Social Skills Improvement System
Rating Scales
(SSIS)
• Authors: Gresham, F. M., & Elliott, S.N.
• Publisher: Pearson
http://psychcorp.pearsonassessments.com/HAIW
EB/Cultures/enus/Productdetail.htm?Pid=PAa3400&Mode=sum
mary
SSIS Rating Scales:
General Information
• Screening and characterizing
• Social skills and problem behaviors
– Academic competence ≠ Preschool
• Social skills
– Communication, cooperation, assertion, responsibility,
empathy, engagement, self-control
• Problem behaviors
– Externalizing, bullying, hyperactivity/inattention,
internalizing, autism spectrum
• 3:0 to 5:11 for preschool
Components of SSIS Rating Scales
• Rating Scales Manual**
• Forms
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Teacher form **
Parent Form
Student Form (Ages 8 – 12 years) – N/A
Student (Ages 13-18 years) sheets – N/A
• Audio recordings (if needed) for raters who have
reading or vision difficulties
• Computer Software and Reports (ASSIST™ Scoring and
Reporting System)
** = Needed for CSEFEL Demonstration Sites
Who Completes SSIS Rating Scale?
• For CSEFEL demonstration sites, the teacher
or caregiver
• Recommend that teacher or caregiver have at
least 2 months experience with the child
• Parent form is available but will not be used
for CSEFEL
• Time to Complete: 15-20 min/rating scale
Administration
• Teacher or caregiver completes ratings using
Teacher Form
• Rater should be familiar with the Teacher
Form
• CSEFEL Demonstration Sites will use
computer-entry forms
• Teacher Form is used for all children age 3 and
older
SSIS Rating Scale Item-Response
Format
• Frequency Ratings
– Frequency of social skills and problem behaviors
– 4-point scale
• Never, Seldom, Often, Almost Always
• Importance Ratings
– Rater’s perceived value of the behaviors being
assessed
– Social skills items
– 3-point scale
• Not important, Important, Critical
Questions and Answers