HPC 5140: Psychological & Educational Testing: Class Research Guide
- Finding Test Instruments & Evaluations
- Finding Books & Other Materials: Library Catalogs
- Finding Articles: Databases & Article Indexes
- Research Assistance Web Guides
- ASU Department Link
- Where to Go for Help
Finding Test Instruments & Evaluations
APA - Testing and Assessment
http://www.apa.org/science/faq-findtests.html
Guidance from the APA in using available resources to find psychological tests.
Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures
ASU REFERENCE BF431 .G625
Dubuque [etc.] Wm. C. Brown [etc.]
Provides access to experimental mental measures, tests, and surveys that are not commercially available.
The ETS Test Collection Catalog
ASU REFERENCE BF176.Z9 E79
Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 1986-
Print version of ETS Test Link database.
ETS Test Link
http://www.ets.org/testcoll/
Includes over 20,000 tests and other measurements from U.S. publishers and individual test authors from the early 1900s to the present; tests have not been subjected to the intensive investigation usually associated with commercially published tests.
Measures for Psychological Assessment
ASU REFERENCE BF698.5 .C45
Ann Arbor, Mich. : Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, 1975
Provides annotated references to numerous psychological measures first appearing in journal articles or other publications.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
ASU REFERENCE BF176.Z9 M4
Highland Park, N.J. : The Mental Measurements Yearbook, 1941-
Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised tests; covers commercially-available tests in categories such as personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychological, achievement, intelligence and aptitude.
Test Critiques
ASU REFERENCE BF176 .T418
Kansas City, Mo. : Test Corporation of America, c1984-
A companion volume to Tests ; includes psychometric information such as reliability, validity, and norm development.
Tests
ASU REFERENCE BF176 .T43
Austin, Tex. : Pro-Ed, 1997
Contains information on thousands of testing instruments in psychology, education, and business; does not contain evaluative critiques or data on reliability, validity, or norms. See Test Critiques .
Tests in Print
ASU REFERENCE BF176.Z9 T47
Lincoln, Neb. : Buros Institute of Mental Measurements,
Over 2,600 test entries are arranged alphabetically, with a supplemental title, subject, and author/name index. It also provides an index to the reviews of tests included in the Mental Measurements Yearbook .
Test Reviews Online
http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp
Provides online searching of the Mental Measurements Yearbook series but reviews must be purchased ($15.00 per review) or looked up in the print edition.
Finding Books & Other Materials: Library Catalogs
Library Catalog
To locate books, journal titles (after you have used an index or database to identify specific articles), and other materials in the ASU Libraries and the Western North Carolina Library Network (WNCLN). Selected subject headings include:
Ability Testing
Educational Tests and Measurements
Occupational Aptitude Tests
Educational Tests and Measurements
Personality Assessment
Personality Questionnaires
Psychodiagnostics
Psychological Tests
WorldCat , 11th Century - to present.
WorldCat is a catalog of over 35 million books, serials, audiovisual media, maps, archives/manuscripts, scores, and computer files from 17,000 libraries around the world. Electronic interlibrary loan requesting is available for qualified patrons. WorldCat is not an index to journal articles.
Finding Articles: Databases & Article Indexes
Academic Search Premier,1984 - present; Full Text : 1990 - present
Provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, business, general academics, general science, and multicultural subjects. Offers full text for over 1,000 journals. Includes coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals.
ERIC, 1966 - present.
Provides indexing to journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, books, and ERIC documents. Subjects include adult, career, and vocational education information.
PsycINFO, 1887 - present.
Provides citations with abstracts and some full text for journal articles, dissertations, books, book chapters, and reports covering the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines.
Evaluating Internet Sources
Tips on evaluating information found on the Internet .
How to Cite Sources
Belk Library's guide for citing sources in APA, Chicago, MLA, and Turabian citation styles.
Department of Human Development & Psychological Counseling
Provides a faculty directory and undergraduate and graduate information.
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Where to Go for Help
Reference Desk (Phone us at 262-2820 or come by in person.)
Research Advisory Program (RAP Sessions )
Reference & Instruction Subject Specialists (or Virginia Branch 262-4966, Rm 146, branchvc@appstate.edu)
Compiled by Librarians at Appalachian State University Libraries. branchvc@appstate.edu