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Quest is a cutting-edge online data collection platform designed to meet the needs of researchers and providers working with any age group—adults, teens, and children as young as five years old.

Quest lets you:

  • Create survey items

  • Deploy surveys

  • Monitor responses

  • Code and visualize data

  • Export results

  • and more!

With a 12-month Quest license, you control every aspect of data collection

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Surveys as Unique as Your Research

Craft surveys to support your research and meet the needs of your respondents:
  • Expertly designed templates
  • Customized look to match your brand
  • Customized experience to guide respondents
  • Data visualization
  • Section 508 compliance
  • Multilingual surveys
  • Cutting-edge survey builder (full suite of question types, skip logic, branching logic, answer piping, custom variables, text-to-speech, drag and drop for categorization)
The Quest builder shows the ability to drag and drop elements to create a survey.

Building Made Easy

Drag and drop elements, edit settings, and customize colors and branding to make surveys meet your needs.

Quest's visualize feature shows data turned into a bar graph with other options for displaying the data.

Data Made Beautiful

Visualize data to see your results in seconds.

Developmental Accommodations

Quest is the only research-based online data collection system that can be tailored to the developmental needs of children, giving them an important voice in research.

Quest includes child-friendly features such as character assistants, colorful backgrounds, and large buttons.
Quest offers engaging survey layouts for younger (5–9 years) and older (10–12 years) children. Surveys support a variety of response formats and the option to embed audio and graphics.
A treasure map shows the steps in a survey, with a character assistant guiding children along the way.
Quest has the latest in child-friendly tech! Surveys include vibrant backgrounds, a variety of character assistants, and personalized feedback. Optional mini-games maintain engagement and reward kids for making progress.
A survey includes age-appropriate accommodations, notably autoplay audio of instructions and questions, masking, and synchronized highlighting.
Need more accommodations? Quest has you covered with masking; synchronized highlighting; audio with auto-play and clickable replay; text-to-speech for all questions, directions, and responses; unique, child-friendly passcodes to access surveys.

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    DEB CHILDRESS, PHD

    Chief of Research and Learning Content

    BIOGRAPHY

    Dr. Childress obtained her PhD in psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to coming to 3C Institute, she served as a research associate and a postdoctoral fellow in the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill working on a longitudinal imaging study aimed at identifying the early markers of autism through behavioral and imaging methodologies. She has 19 years of autism research experience, during which she has examined the behavioral, personality, and cognitive characteristics of individuals with autism and their family members. Dr. Childress also has experience developing behavioral and parent report measurement tools, coordinating multi-site research studies, and collecting data from children and families. She has taught courses and seminars in general child development, autism, and cognitive development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

    Expertise

    • autism
    • early development
    • behavioral measurement
    • integrating behavioral and biological measurement

    Education

    • Postdoctoral fellowship, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (Institutional NRSA-NICHD), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    • PhD, developmental psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    • BS, psychology (minor in sociology), University of Iowa

    Selected Publications

    • Elison, J. T., Wolff, J. J., Heimer, D. C., Paterson, S. J., Gu, H., Hazlett, H. C., Styner, M, Gerig, G., & Piven, J. (in press). Frontolimbic neural circuitry at 6 months predicts individual differences in joint attention at 9 months. Developmental Science.
    • Wassink, T. H., Vieland, V. J., Sheffield, V. C., Bartlett, C. W., Goedken, R., Childress, D. & Piven, J. (2008). Posterior probability of linkage analysis of autism dataset identifies linkage to chromosome 16. Psychiatric Genetics,18(2),85-91.
    • Losh, M., Childress, D., Lam K. & Piven, J. (2008). Defining key features of the broad autism phenotype: A comparison across parents of multiple- and single-incidence autism families. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 147B(4):424-33.
    • Wassink, T. H., Piven, J., Vieland, V. J., Jenkins, L., Frantz R., Bartlett, C. W., Goedken, R., … Sheffield, V.C. (2005). Evaluation of the chromosome 2q37.3 gene CENTG2 as an autism susceptibility gene. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 136, 36-44.
    • Barrett, S., Beck, J., Bernier, R., Bisson, E., Braun, T., Casavant, T., Childress, D., … Vieland, V. (1999). An autosomal genomic screen for autism. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 88, 609-615. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19991215)88:63.0.CO;2-L
    • Piven, J., Palmer, P., Landa, R., Santangelo, S., Jacobi, D. & Childress, D. (1997). Personality and language characteristics in parents from multiple-incidence autism families. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 74, 398-411.
    • Piven, J., Palmer, P., Jacobi, D., Childress, D. & Arndt, S. (1997). Broader autism phenotype: Evidence from a family history study of multiple-incidence autism families. American Journal of Psychiatry, 154, 185-190.