How Do I?
- Tests and Test Manuals
- Directories/Test Review: Online
- Directories/Test Reviews: Print
- Handbooks of Tests, Measures, and Measurement Techniques
- Test Samples
Tests and Test Reviews
This section focuses on test information in the Penn State Libraries. For more detailed information, see the excellent "FAQ-Finding Information about Psychological Tests" prepared by the American Psychological Association - http://www.apa.org/science/faq-findtests.html
Individual psychological and achievement tests are not available in the Libraries because of issues involving authority to administer tests, security, etc. Reference information such as summaries, abstracts, reviews, publisher data, and other details about the instrument is available in the resources listed below. This review / reference information is almost always sufficient for undergraduate research needs.
Undergraduate students rarely have the need to obtain copies of tests. Tests are copyrighted, and manuals and scoring keys are also necessary. Tests may be purchased through several methods:
- contact the publisher indicated in the directories
- contact the National Auxiliary Publications Service (516) 481-2300
- for ETS tests: Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ 08540 (609) 734-5686
- some authors offer tests for free. Write the author for copies, permission and price.
- contact American document Institute (202) 707-5661or Select Press (415) 924-1612 to see if your test has been stored at these document depositories
Directories / Test Reviews (Titles with * are the primary sources to identify test information)
Use these sources to find test references, review, a particular test, type of test, and test publishers. Reviews often discuss reliability, validity, research history, intended populations, stated purposes, and professional usage, and acronyms.
* Mental Measurements Yearbook [Buros]
Provides independent, scholarly, indexing, descriptions, and evaluations of thousands of commercially published psychological and educational tests. The “Consumer Reports” of the testing industry”. Biennial editions are not cumulative; consult all volumes for comprehensive and historical coverage of a test. Includes book reviews and directories of test publishers
On A-Z list http://www.lias.psu.edu/alall.htmlBuros Web site
http://www.libfind.unl.edu/buros/* ETS TestLink
Extensive library of 20,000 tests and other measurement devices from the early 1900s to the present.
http://www.ets.org/testcoll/index.htmlHealth and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
Health and Psychosocial Instruments features material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians such as questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques. Most entries are in medical and nursing areas such pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation. However, HaPI also includes tests used in medically related disciplines such as psychology, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech & hearing therapy.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#HEALTHPSYMental Measurements Yearbook Test Reviews Online
Free information on more than 4,000 commercially available tests, including current publisher information.
http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jspPractical Assessment Research and Evaluation (PARE)
http://PAREonline.netTests and Measures in the Social Sciences ( Helen Hough)
A souce for finding complete psychosocial tests and instruments in book compilations.
http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/Test&meas/testmainframe.htm
* Tests in Print [Buros]
Includes over 2,600 tests, and is a cumulative retrospective index to the references and reviews in the Mental Measurements Yearbook. Includes brief description, intended use and populations, administration and scoring procedures, related citations, and publication / availability information.
Psychware Sourcebook 4th edition
Describes computer-based products available for assessment in psychology, education, and business. Includes reproductions of samples and hardware requirements.* Test Critiques
A 10 volume set with instrument data for thousands of tests in psychology, education, and business. Descriptions include application, administration, scoring, interpretation, reliability, and validity.* Tests: a Comprehensive Reference for Assessments in Psychology, Education, and Business 4th ed.
Describes tests for use by psychologists, educators, and human resource personnel.
Measures for Psychological Assessment: A Guide to 3,000 Original Sources and Their
Applications
Annotated references and instrument data for thousands of psychological measures first appearing in journal articles or other publications between 1960 and 1970.
Also of interest:
Computer Adaptive Testing Tutorial (1998)
http://edres.org/scripts/cat
Item Response Therapy
http://edres.org/irt
BETSY (Bayesian Essay Test Scoring System )
http://edres.org/betsy
Measurement Decision Theory
http://edres.org/mdt
Handbooks of Tests, Measures, and Measurement Techniques
Gender Roles: A Handbook of Text and Measures
Describes 211 scales on gender roles, children and gender, stereotypes, marital and parental roles, employee roles, and more.Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques
Describes 976 family-related tests from the past 50 years.Major Psychological Assessment Instruments
Sex and Gender Issues: A Handbook of Tests and Measures
Describes 197 scales on heterosocial relations, sexuality, reproductive issues, homosexuality, rape, family violence, body image, eating disorders, and more.Women and Women's Issues: a Handbook of Tests and Measures
Describes 235 measures on sex roles, stereotypes, children's sex roles, gender knowledge, and more. Check CAT to request from a PSU campus location.
Handbook of Sexually Related Measures
Includes hundreds of measures related to sexual behavior, beliefs, attitudes, and more. Most instruments are included in the book, as well as description, response mode and timing, scoring, reliability, validity, and references.Measures for Clinical Practice: A Source Book 2 vols
Information on selecting and administering tests designed for use with individuals, families, children and adults. Includes reproducable tests.Measures of Personality & Social Psychological Attitudes
Eighty eight of the most useful measures of important social science concepts, reviewed by experts.Tests in Microfiche [Educational Testing Service, ETS Test Collection]
An annual series of unpublished educational and psychological research instruments that have been cited in the educational and psychological literature, and are unavailable commercially.