HPC 6330: Assessment & Program Evaluation in Student Affairs: Class Research Guide
- Finding Test Instruments & Evaluations
- Finding Books & Other Materials: Library Catalogs
- Finding Articles: Articles & Databases
- Web Links to Institutional Research Sites
- Where to Go for Help
- ASU Department Link
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- Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures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 on testing: Abilty testing, Educational tests and measurements, Psychological tests
Suggested keyword search for benchmarking: benchmarking AND education
- 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: Articles & Databases
- 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.
- Dissertation Abstracts,
Dissertations on all academic topics accepted at accredited institutions since 1861, including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe. Over 1.5 million masters theses and dissertations are included in the database.
- 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.
Web Links to Institutional Research Sites
- AAHE Assessment Forum 9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning
http://www.appstate.edu/www_docs/depart/irp/assessment/principl.html
- Association for Institutional Research
http://airweb.org/page.asp?page=15
- Southern Association for Institutional Research
http://sair.org/
- Southern Association for Institutional Research
- Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/Classification/
- College Board -- Higher Education
http://www.collegeboard.com/highered/
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
http://www.ericae.net/
- Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment
http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/assmt/resource.htm
- Internet Resources For Institutional Research
http://www.airweb.org/links/
- IPEDS Interactive Database Search
http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/
- Links to Institutional Research Offices of UNC Institutions
http://www.appstate.edu/www_docs/depart/irp/uncir.html
- NCES (National Center for Educational Statistics)
http://nces.ed.gov/help/sitemap.asp
Where to Go for Help
- Reference Desk (Phone us at 262-2820 or come by in person.)
- How to Cite Sources Belk Library's guide for citing sources in APA, Chicago, MLA, and Turabian citation styles.
- Reference & Instruction Subject Specialists (or Virginia Branch 262-4966, Rm 146, branchvc@appstate.edu)
- Research Advisory Program (RAP Sessions )
ASU Department Links
- Department of Human Development & Psychological Counseling
Provides a faculty directory and undergraduate and graduate information.
Content editor: Virginia Branch branchvc@appstate.edu