Finding Aids and Reviews
Directories, indexes, and collected reviews of tests are listed here.
While Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) is typically the best first place to look, neither MMY nor any single source can truly be considered a comprehensive index to tests that may exist!
Online Finding Aids and Reviews
- Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (Buros Center for Testing at the U of Nebraska) @ EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowProduced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska. Offers evaluations of assessments in education, psychology, business, law, healthcare, counseling, and management. In addition to test reviews, descriptions of the purpose, target population, administration, scores, price, author, and publisher for all listed tests are provided. Includes MMY Archive, 1938-present.
- TestLink, the Test Collection at ETSAn index of more than 25,000 tests and other measurement devices, including the 1,100 tests in Murphy Library’s ETS Tests in Microfiche collection (which are each listed in the Library Catalog).
- Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences: Tests available in compilation volumes.An aid in locating known assessment instruments. Entries include only instrument title, author, date, & pages located in a larger compilation.
Literature Databases
Tests are sometimes published in journal articles.
PsycINFO and ERIC are two databases that offer specialized search functions for locating tests within journal articles.
- APA PsycInfo (American Psychological Association) @ EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowMurphy Library database that indexes journal articles in the field of psychology. If the main focus of an article is about a particular test, the name of the test will be included in the SU Subjects and KW Keywords fields. The TM Tests & Measures field will contain test names that were actually administered as part of the research. If the administered test is included in full text with the article, then Appended appears after the test name in the TM field.
- ERIC (Institute of Education Sciences) @ EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowMurphy Library database that indexes journal articles in the field of education. Can limit searches by Publication Type to articles about tests, evaluation instruments, and questionnaires. Some articles may contain the full text of the instrument.
Print Finding Aids and Reviews
These are sources for identifying and selecting tests, including indexes, directories, and reviews.
Most of these are available in the Reference collection on the first floor.
Some of the handbooks are in the circulating collection on the 2nd floor.
Handbook of Psychological Assessment by Call Number: BF176 .G76 2009 2nd Floor StacksISBN: 9780470083581Fifth edition.
Chapters 5-13 (pp. 119-533) cover the most frequently used tests in depth.
The Handbook of Psychological Testing by Call Number: BF176 .K575 1993 2nd Floor StacksISBN: 0415054818Section IV (Chapters 23-29, pp. 399-568) contains lists, descriptions, and evaluations of psychological tests
Major Psychological Assessment Instruments by Call Number: BF176 .M35 1996 2nd Floor StacksISBN: 0205168698Second edition.
In-depth examination of 11 of the most-used assessment instruments
Tests: a comprehensive reference for assessments in psychology, education, and business by Call Number: BF176 .T43 2008 ReferenceISBN: 97814164034016th ed.
Test Critiques by Call Number: BF176 .T419 1984 ReferenceMulti-volume set of test reviews. Cumulative index in last volume.
Library has v.1-10 (1984-1994)
Sex and gender issues : a handbook of tests and measures by Call Number: BF692 .B38 1990 ReferenceISBN: 0313274622Publication Date: 1990A guide to major tests, including bibliographies for each measure covered.Handbook of Psychological and Educational Assessment of Children by
Call Number: BF722 .H33 1990 ReferenceISBN: 089862391xPublication Date: 1990v.1: Intelligence & Achievement
v.2: Personality, Behavior, & Context
Directory of Psychological Tests in the Sport and Exercise Sciences by Call Number: GV706.4 .D57 1996 ReferenceISBN: 1885693060Second edition.Bibliography on Psychological Tests Used in Research and Practice in Sport and Exercise Psychology by
Call Number: GV706.4 .L48 2002 ReferenceISBN: 0773470018Publication Date: 2002
Handbook of Research Design and Social Measurement by Call Number: H62 .M44 2002 ReferenceISBN: 07619204636th ed.
Part 7 (pages 453-663) covers numerous scales assessing social variables.Handbook of Multicultural Measures by
Call Number: HM1271 .G36 2011 ReferenceISBN: 9781412978835Publication Date: 2010Guide to measurement instruments addressing multicultural competence, racial identity and ethnic identity, acculturation, racism-, prejudice-, gender-, and sexual orientation-related measures, and disability attitude measures
Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques by Call Number: HQ728 .T68 2001 ReferenceISBN: 0803972504Publication Date: 2000v.1-3
v.1: Guide to nearly 1,000 instruments, most published from 1975-1986
v.2: Guide to 367 instruments published from 1987-1996.
Gender roles : a handbook of tests and measures by Call Number: HQ1075 .B44 1990 ReferencePublication Date: 1990211 instruments are described in this guide.
Socioemotional Measures for Preschool and Kindergarten Children by Call Number: LB1115 .W22 ReferenceISBN: 0875891926Publication Date: 19731st ed.
143 measures are described in this guide.
The Special Educator's Comprehensive Guide to 301 Diagnostic Tests by Call Number: LC4019 .P53 2006 ReferenceISBN: 9780787978136Publication Date: 2006Rev. and expanded ed.
Measuring Health by Call Number: RA408.5 .M38 2006 ReferenceISBN: 0195165675Publication Date: 20063rd ed.
A guide to 104 health rating scales and questionnaires/surveys
