About the Measure
| Domains | Social Emotional |
| Subscales | Communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem solving and personal social emotion |
| Target Construct | Social emotional: Self-regulation, Compliance, Communication, Adaptive functioning, Autonomy, Affects and Interaction with people. |
| Description | The ASQ pinpoints developmental progress in children between the ages of one month to 5 ½ years. Its success lies in its parent-centric approach and inherent ease-of-use—a combination that has made it the most widely used developmental screener across the globe. |
| Test Authors | Squire, J. & Bricker Diane |
| Publisher | Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc. (2014) |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| Respondent | Parental questionnaire |
| Prior knowledge Required | It is not necessary to have a professional background or technical training to complete the ASQ-3 |
| Scoring | Use of shaded zones to monitor risk |
| Time | 10 to 15 minutes |
| Age | 1 month to 66 months |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | YES but only for ages 2 to 2 years and 6 months |
| Norm / Criterion referenced | Norm referenced |
| Standardisation sample | 18000 |
| Reliability | Test retest 0.91. Inter rater 0.92 (info from Squires, J., et al., Psychometric Studies of ASQ, Third Edition. Excerpted from ASQ-3 User's Guide., 2009. |
| Criterion validity | Insufficient data in the public domain to evaluate but other psychometric data indicate that it is an effective screener |
| Construct validity | The developers have not examined relationships between sets of items that aim to address similar skills and behaviours. The developers did examine the relationships between developmental area scores and overall score on the ASQ-3 for 20 questionnaire age intervals. The results showed strong relationships between developmental area scores and overall ASQ-3 scores. Information about whether scores on sets of items relate to children’s age as expected is not provided/ |
| Concurrent validity | Concurrent validity over 0.86; Sensitivity 0.86; Specificity 0.08 |