ASQ-3 has a standardization with an unrivaled sample that closely mirrors the U.S. population in geography and ethnicity and includes children of all socioeconomic statuses. The sample includes 15,138 children whose parents completed 18,232 questionnaires. Reliability, validity, sensitivity, and specificity are all exc...
Because there are different numbers of items on each age interval (and thus varying score ranges), you can compute an average item score for each child and compare those average scores. The average item score is calculated by dividing the total score by the number of scored items on that interval. The chart on page 36 ...
Within the ASQ:SE-2 technical report, the developers make the following statements regarding gender and interpreting results: "It is important to note that the validity sample did not have adequate numbers of girls identified with social-emotional problems to determine if separate cutoff scores for females are ...
The monitoring zone helps programs identify a child with skills that are not below the cutoff but may need close attention and monitoring. This zone represents a range of scores that are at least 1 but less than 2 standard deviations below mean performance in each developmental area. When a child's score falls in the m...
The developers made the change in how prematurity is defined between editions in an attempt to make determing prematurity and calculating age easier for users to understand and implement. If your program has regularly used the "more than 3 weeks" prematurity guideline from the 2nd edition, you may continue to do so as ...
Table 18 on page 171 in the ASQ-3 User's Guide contains all of the means, standard deviations, and cutoff scores for each area of all 21 intervals. On ASQ-3, the cutoff score is 2 standard deviations below the mean; the data in the 2.0 SD column represent the cutoff for referral zone. The monitoring zone is between 1-2...
It is important that toys and materials used when completing ASQ-3 be relevant to the child's cultural practices and it is ideal that those materials are accessible to the family. Using materials that exist in the home in new ways, such as stacking with plastic cups and putting lids on pots and pans, may increase the f...