Ages & Stages Questionnaires

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Testing Information

Test Information

• ASQ-3 ( Ages and stages questionaire)
• Authors: Jane Squires, Elizabeth Twornbly, & Diane Bricker
• Publisher: Paul H. Brooks Publishing Company
• Year Published: Edition three, 2009

Test Information

• Age Level:one month to five and a half
• Type of Test: Social/Emotional test that includes 5 areas of testing
• 1.Communication
• 2.Gross Motor
• 3.Fine Motor
• 4.Problem Solving
• 5.Personal-Social

Requirements for Testing

The questionnaire takes approximately...

Time Required

• The questionare is written in a fourth-sixth grade reading level
• It can be reliably accomplished by individuals with no specific training
• Professionals establish the screening and the training for the individuals who will score the questionnaire and provide the feedback for the parents (paraprofessionals)

Training Required

• Requires minimal training. It was designed to be used by staff with varying levels of education.
• DVD
• On-site seminars as well as attending a seminar
• The www.agesandstages.com website is updated with information with additional training options

Testing

Testing Materials

• The users guide
• Sample forms/letters to help establish a screening/monitoring program
• Parent-child activity sheets that correspond to ASQ-3 age intervals
• Suggested readings and a glossary
• ASQ-3 technical report info that summarizes psychometric studies on the questionnaires

Users
Guide

Two month Ages & Stages questionnaire

Testing Materials

• Child monitoring sheet- used to track a child's screening over time
• Parent conference sheet-designed to organize meetings with families about the screening results

Child Monitoring Sheet

Parent conference sheet

Questionnaire Options

• The test kit includes the following
• 21 reproducible master questionnaires and 21 reproducible, age appropriate scoring and data summary sheets
• Available on paper and CD rom and in online completion format
• Available in English and Spanish through Brookes Publishing

Scoring

Scoring

• Scoring is completed manually by the paraprofessional
• Takes about 2-3 minutes to tally up the scores for all 5 areas tested
• There is not a set basal or ceiling
• There is a cut off score for each scoring sheet according to the child's age

Example of Cutoff

Scoring

• Scores are either at cutoffs, close to cutoffs, or below cutoffs
• Dark shaded areas 2 standard deviations below the mean cutoff score of development
• Lightly shaded (monitoring zone)- developed to address concerns about careful monitoring

Scoring

• If a child's score is in the darkly shaded region than further assessment is needed
• If a child falls within the lightly shaded region (monitoring zone)
• 1.Provide learning activities in the specific area of development
• 2.Refer child for further assessment
• 4.Retesting should occur within 4 to 6 months

How to calculate scores

• Scoring is based on parents responses which can be: yes, sometimes, and not yet
• Yes equals 10
• Sometimes equals 5
• Not yet equals 0
• Once categories are tallied the scores are represented on bar graphs completed by the professional

Example of a 6 month questionnaire

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