1. Measuring Child Outcomes in CSEFEL Demonstration Sites
Mary Louise Hemmeter
Patricia Snyder
Tweety Yates

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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
No child’s name OR teacher’s name

7. Vanderbilt University
Send Data to:
Alana Schnitz
CSEFEL Project
Vanderbilt University
230 Appleton Place
MRL Bldg., Rm 304
Nashville, TN  37203
Alana to alert her when you mail it:
*keep a copy and ship with a tracking number
Keep a copy and send with a method that provides a tracking number

8. Ages and Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional (ASQ-SE)
Authors: Squires, J., Bricker, D., & Twombly, E.
Publisher: Brookes

9. 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

10. 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
You can make as many copies as you need – NOTE: ML, we only provided one Starter Kit per state so they may need to work with their State Liaison to get copies

11. Who Completes ASQ-SE?
For CSEFEL demonstration sites, the teacher or caregiver
Teachers or caregivers can complete the ASQ-SE; “however, it is important that caregivers have hours per week of contact with the child before completing the ASQ-SE” (ASQ-SE User’s Guide, p. 25)
Time to Complete: min/questionnaire

12. Number of Items By Age Level
Table from: ASQ-SE User’s Guide

13. 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
Note: we are not using it for 36, 48 and 60 month olds

14. 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

15. 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

16. REMIND THEM TO USE child ID NUMBER rather then name ON PROTOCOL

18. Social Skills Improvement System Rating Scales (SSIS)
Authors: Gresham, F. M., & Elliott, S.N.
Publisher: Pearson

19. 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

20. Components of SSIS Rating Scales
Rating Scales Manual**
Forms
Teacher form **
Parent Form
Student Form (Ages 8 – 12 years) – N/A
Student (Ages 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

21. 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: min/rating scale
Note: We have NOT purchased any of the Parent Forms – are we going to offer this or are they on their own dime to do this??????

22. 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

23. 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
Are we looking at the Importance Ratings???? Or just focusing on the Importance Ratings????
We would look at both frequency and importance ratings

27. Questions and Answers