Resources for Locating Tests and Measurements  

Recommended Reference Books

These selected print books are available on the main floor in the Reference collection. 

Encyclopedia of Psychological Assessment  (Ref BF 39 .E497)

Encyclopedia of Psychological Assessment.pdf (sample pages)

Measures for clinical practice : a sourcebook   (Ref BF176 .C66)

Measures for clinical practice.pdf (sample pages)

Handbook of psychiatric measures     (Ref RC473 .P78 A46)

Handbook Psychiatric Measures.pdf (sample pages)

Sage encyclopedia of social science research methods   (Ref H62 .L456)

Sage encyclopedia of social science  (sample pages from Google books)

Test Critiques     (Ref BF 176 .T418)   

Test Critiques.pdf (sample pages)

 Contains text and/or samples of actual instruments.

Databases 

Databases are available by selecting the subject Psychology after choosing the Databases tab on the Library's homepage. 

Mental Measurements Yearbook  (MMY) is a comprehensive guide to contemporary testing instruments in psychology and education. MMY entries include the test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. The full text of the instrument is not included. 

Use keyword searching. Enter keywords and use the AND operator to find instruments. For example:

self image AND adolesc* [using truncation symbol * finds adolescence, adolescent, adolescents, etc.]

PsycINFO  can be used to find articles about specific instruments and to find articles which contain text of the actual instruments.   

 

Use the PsycINFO thesaurus to search for articles on various types of types, for example:
Aptitude measures

Attitude measures

Performance tests

Personality measures

Employment tests

Intelligence tests

Inventories

Test construction 

 

Use the classification codes to limit to psychological instruments, for example:

2200 Psychometrics & Statistics & Methodology

2220 Tests & Testing

2221 Sensory & Motor Testing

2222 Developmental Scales & Schedules

2223 Personality Scales & Inventories

2224 Clinical Psychological Testing

2225 Neuropsychological Assessment

2226 Health Psychology Testing

2227 Educational Measurement

2228 Occupational & Employment Testing

2229 Consumer Opinion & Attitude Testing 

 

Use keyword searching.  Enter the following keywords using the OR operator for example:

test OR assessment OR scale OR questionnaire OR measure OR survey

[use the AND operator to combine the above keywords with your subject area]  AND eating disorders

 

Use keyword searching.  To find articles which contain text of the actual instruments use the term 'appended', for example:

test OR assessment OR scale

AND self esteem

AND appended

 

Use the TM Tests & Measures field.  Enter your keywords and set the field to TM. For example:

self esteem or self concept IN [TM Tests & Measures] 

 

Use the TM Tests & Measures field to find articles which contain text of a particular instrument. For example:

Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale and appended IN [TM Tests & Measures] 

 

Use the Indexes function. 

Browse the Tests & Measures Index to find an instrument by title or to find instrument titles that contain  a particular keyword. Follow this path to use the Index function. 

From the top toolbar select [More] then [Indexes]

At [Browse for Index], select [Tests & Measures]

Enter a title or a keyword in the [Browse for] box. For example,  Rosenberg self esteem scale OR self esteem.

From the results list, check one or more of the boxes, then select [Add].   Your slected terms will be moved to a Search box at the top of the screen.

Select [Search]

PsycTESTS  provides citations, summaries, and some full text, for instruments in psychology, business, education, social science, and social work.  

Use keyword searching.  

For example type: internet and college students in the Look for search boxes.  

Use the Edit search link to change your search terms.

Search by Test Construct..   

Set the search field to Test Construct to do a targeted search on the psychological construct being measured.  For example:  self esteem

          Citing Records from PsycTESTS

Following is a sample citation for an item from PsycTESTS.  APA has a brief tutorial on how to cite records found in PsycTESTS.  

Hodson, G., Rush, J., & MacInnis, C. C. (2101). Cavalier Humor Beliefs Scale [Database record]. 

          Retrieved from PsycTESTS. doi:110.1037/t00810-000 

Internet Resources

• Self Report Measures -  A variety of measures made available by Dr. Charles Carver, University of Miami.  Examples: COPE is a measure of coping; LOT-R measures optimism-pessimism; MAQ, a measure of adult attachment qualities.  http://www.psy.miami.edu/faculty/ccarver/CCscales.html

• Psychological Tests for Student Use - A database of many psychological scales: http://www.yorku.ca/rokada/psyctest/

• Psych Web's Tests and Assessments page -  http://www.psywww.com/resource/bytopic/testing.html.  

• ETS - The Test Collection at ETS is a library of more than 25,000 tests and other measurement http://www.ets.org/test_link/about 

• Google Scholar -  http://scholar.google.com/



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