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Finding Tests and Measurements: Books - Test Finding Aids

A pathfinder to identifying and finding tests and measures in the social sciences.

Books

The books in this list serve as finding aids that you can use to locate tests by topic, including both unpublished and commercially published tests. They do not contain the full text of the tests themselves. Many of them include critical reviews on the reliability, validity, and appropriate application of the included tests.

Note item location, as this list includes e-books as well as print books located in the main stacks, the Library Auxiliary Building, and the government documents collection.

Directory of Psychological Tests in the Sport and Exercise Sciences
Call Number: Stacks 796.01025 D598
Publication Date: 2002
Describes purpose and application of tests for research, primarily not available commercially.

Directory of Test Collections in Academic, Professional, and Research Libraries
Call Number: Library Auxiliary Building - request via Interlibrary Services
Publication Date: 2001
Not a finding aid for individual tests, but a directory of libraries and other institutions that hold test collections, including contact information for interested researchers.

Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures
Call Number: Stacks 152.8 G619d
Publication Date: 1974-2008
Contains information on over 1700 test instruments taken from 37 social science journals published between 1970 and 2005. Each entry includes test descriptions and citation information.

ETS Test Collection Catalog
Call Number: Library Auxiliary Building - request via Interlibrary Services
Publication Date: 1986/1992
Brief descriptions of commercially available tests in education, psychology, and related fields.

Family Assessment: A Guide to Methods and Measures
Call Number: Stacks 306.85 G881f
Publication Date: 1989
Includes both published and unpublished measures, focusing on whole-family assessment.

Gender Roles: A Handbook of Tests and Measures
Call Number: Stacks 301.41072 B415g
Publication Date: 1990
Descriptions and sample items for tests on a range of gender-related constructs in social and psychological domains.

Index to Tests Used in Educational Dissertations
Call Number: Library Auxiliary Building - request via Interlibrary Services
Publication Date: 1989
Indexes tests used in educational dissertations from 1938 to 1980. Use Dissertation Abstracts to locate cited dissertations.

Major Psychological Assessment Instruments
Call Number: Stacks 150.287 M234
Publication Date: 1985/1996
Two editions. In-depth discussion of some of the most significant psychological assessment instruments.

Measures for Psychological Assessment: A Guide to 3,000 Original Sources and Their Applications
Call Number: Online and Library Auxiliary Building - request via Interlibrary Services
Publication Date: 1975
A comprehensive bibliography of the tests and measurements available in 26 psychology and sociology journals published from 1960-1970.

Mental Measurements Yearbook
Call Number: Stacks 016.151 B967m
Publication Date: 1940-2014
See online version for detailed description.

Personality Tests and Reviews
Call Number: Stacks 155.28 B967pe
Publication Date: 1972-74
Comprises the personality sections of MMYs Tests in Print. Includes a comprehensive bibliography, evaluations, and sample items.

Psychological Assessment in the Schools
Call Number: Stacks 155.418 B937
Publication Date: 1994
Published by the Buros Institute (producers of MMY and TIP), this guide reviews over 100 frequently used instruments.

Screening and Evaluating the Young Child: A Handbook of Instruments to Use from Infancy to Six Years
Call Number: Library Auxiliary Building - request via Interlibrary Services
Publication Date: 1980

Sex and Gender Issues: A Handbook of Tests and Measures
Call Number: Stacks 155.30287 B415s
Publication Date: 1990
Includes sample items as well as reviews and availability information.

Test Critiques
Call Number: Stacks 150.287 T342
Publication Date: 1984-1994
Ten volumes. Critiques of tests in a broad range of social science topics, focusing on commercially published tests. Comprehensive index in final volume.

Testing Adolescents: A Reference Guide for Comprehensive Psychological Assessments
Call Number: Stacks 155.5028 T344
Publication Date: 1986

Testing Adults: A Reference Guide for Special Psychodiagnostic Assessments
Call Number: Stacks 616.89075 T3435
Publication Date: 1985

Testing Children: A Reference Guide for Effective Clinical and Psychoeducational Assessments
Call Number: Stacks 616.89075 T344
Publication Date: 1984

Tests and Measurements in Child Development
Call Number: Library Auxiliary Building - request via Interlibrary Services
Publication Date: 1976
Reliability and validity information for over 1200 unpublished measures of child behavior.

Tests in Education: A Book of Critical Reviews
Call Number: Library Auxiliary Building - request via Interlibrary Services
Publication Date: 1984
Reviews tests for primary and secondary school children, focusing on British tests.

Tests in Print
Call Number: Stacks 371.26 T345
Publication Date: 1961-
See online version for detailed description.

Tests: A Comprehensive Reference for Assessments in Psychology, Education, and Business
Call Number: Stacks 150.28 T345 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Directory of commercially available tests. Older editions also available.

Women and Women's Issues: A Handbook of Tests and Measures
Call Number: Stacks 301.412018 B415w
Publication Date: 1979
Previous edition of Gender Roles: A Handbook of Tests and Measures. Contains descriptions of 235 published and unpublished instruments (1920s-1977), measuring variables related to women's issues, sex roles and stereotypes and gender knowledge.