## Showing articles from cutoff scores tag

### [What do the bold entries in a report mean?](https://support.agesandstages.com/kb/article/494-what-do-the-bold-entries-in-a-report-mean/)

In the Screening Results, By Child reports, the bolded entries are scores of concern. For ASQ-3, these will be scores that fall below the cutoff. For ASQ:SE-2, these will be scores that fall above the cutoff. The bolded entries make it more easy to spot any scores of concern.

### [Are there available benchmarks to use to determine if programs are finding the same percentage of questionnaires in the referral area as the national or state-wide average?](https://support.agesandstages.com/kb/article/151-are-there-available-benchmarks-to-use-to-determine-if-programs-are-finding-the-same-percentage-of-questionnaires-in-the-referral-area-as-the-national-or-statewide-average/)

The breakdown of ASQ-3 questionnaire results (typical, monitoring, referral) depends greatly upon the population of children served by your program. In the national normative sample used to examine the psychometric properies of ASQ-3, an average of 15.5% of children fell below the cutoff score in at least one domain.…

### [Is the ASQ-3 Spanish version validated with a Spanish-speaking population? Does it have separate normative data?](https://support.agesandstages.com/kb/article/291-is-the-asq3-spanish-version-validated-with-a-spanishspeaking-population-does-it-have-separate-normative-data/)

The Spanish translation of ASQ-3 has not been separately validated or normed. It is a translation of the English tool, not a separately developed tool with its own standardization data. However, the developers’ research suggests that the English cutoff scores are appropriate for Spanish-speaking children as well. Als…

### [Are there numerical values for the monitoring zone cutoffs on ASQ-3? On one of the age intervals, the gray line indicating the monitoring zone ends halfway in the circle representing 45; does that indicate that the monitoring zone cutoff is 42.5?](https://support.agesandstages.com/kb/article/366-are-there-numerical-values-for-the-monitoring-zone-cutoffs-on-asq3-on-one-of-the-age-intervals-the-gray-line-indicating-the-monitoring-zone-ends-halfway-in-the-circle-representing-45-does-that-indicate-that-the-monitoring-zone-cutoff-is-425/)

The monitoring zone for ASQ-3 is set between 1 and 2 standard deviations below the mean for each domain. Table 18 in the technical appendix (available online or on page 171 of the ASQ-3 User's Guide) includes standard deviations for each domain of each interval. The numbers in Column 1.0 SD represent the top end of…