Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ)

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Instrument Overview

The Ages & Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) is a screening instrument that measures developmental performance in young children aged 1 month-5.5 years. Early childhood educators and healthcare professionals use ASQ to collect information from parents on children‘s development in five domains: communication, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, problem solving, and personal-social skills. ASQ-3 offers 21 parent/caregiver questionnaires that are used depending on the child's age.

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Organization

Student Well-Being Category

American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.

Content

Grades
< 3 Years,
Pre-Kindergarten,
Kindergarten,
1st Grade,
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Child Development ; Development
Languages
Arabic,
French,
Vietnamese
Respondent
Parent

Administration Information

Length
10 - 15 minutes for parents to complete, 1 - 3 minutes for professionals to score
Administration
Computer,
Paper

Access and Use

Open Access
No
Setting
Other

Psychometrics (additional guidance)

Psychometric References

Hornman, J., Kerstjens, J. M., de Winter, A. F., Bos, A. F., & Reijneveld, S. A. (2013). Validity and internal consistency of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire 60-month version and the effect of three scoring methods. Early Human Development, 89(12), 1011-1015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2013.08.016

San Antonio, M. C., Fenick, A. M., Shabanova, V., Leventhal, J. M., & Weitzman, C. C. (2014). Developmental screening using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire: standardized versus real-world conditions. Infants & Young Children, 27(2), 111-119. https//doi.org/10.1097/IYC.0000000000000005

Schonhaut, L., Armijo, I., Schönstedt, M., Alvarez, J., & Cordero, M. (2013). Validity of the Ages and Stages Questionnaires in term and preterm infants. Pediatrics, 131(5), e1468-e1474. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2012-3313

Squires, J., Twombly, E., Bricker, D., Potter, L. (2009). ASQ-3 ™ User's Guide. Brookes Publishing. https://agesandstages.com/

Squires, J., Bricker, D., & Potter, L. (1997). Revision of a parent-completed developmental screening tool: Ages and Stages Questionnaires. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 22(3), 313-328. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/22.3.313

Squires, J. K., Potter, L., Bricker, D. D., & Lamorey, S. (1998). Parent-completed developmental questionnaires: Effectiveness with low and middle income parents. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 13(2), 345-354. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0885-2006(99)80043-X