Milner Library maintains three collections of educational and psychological tests as well as numerous reference materials for locating tests and test reviews. If Milner Library does not own the test you need, obtaining a copy of the test instrument can be difficult and frustrating. In many instances the only source of a test instrument is its author or publisher. In some instances test instruments can be found in journal literature (tip: search PsycINFO and Health and Psychosocial Instruments). For a helpful primer on finding tests and test information see Finding Information About Psychological Tests from the American Psychological Association.
Obtaining information about tests
Obtaining reviews of tests
Obtaining test instruments
TEST DIRECTORIES
The following sources provide brief information about tests such as author, publisher, purpose, scores, and availability. Use these sources to locate information about a specific test or to identify tests related to specific topics of interest.
Tests in Print
Floor 2 Reference LB 3051 .T453
Information about commercially published tests. Designed for use in conjunction with Mental Measurements Yearbook. Does not include test instruments. Set includes editions 1 (1961) - 7 (2006).
Tests
Floor 2 ReferenceBF 176 .T43
Basic information about various tests. Does not include test instruments.
Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures
(8 volumes with separate title index)
Floor 2 Reference BF 431 .G625
Index to tests that are not commercially published but are available in the journal literature. Does not include test instruments.
Test Link
Database of 20,000 standardized tests and research instruments. Sponsored by ETS (Educational Testing Service). Does not include test instruments but provides directions for obtaining them. Includes titles in the Tests in Microfiche collection.
Handbook of Tests and Measurement in Education and the Social Sciences
Floor 2 Reference LB 3051 .L4543 2000
Includes over 120 test instruments arranged by topic. Also provides basic information about the construction, validation, and use of tests.
A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests: Administration, Norms, and Commentary
Floor 2 Reference RC 386.6 .N48 S67 2006
Contains detailed information for 106 neuropsychological test instruments including information about norms, validity, and reliability. Each entry includes an extensive reference list. Does not include test instruments.
MORE DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT SPECIFIC TESTS
Milner Library owns numerous books about specific types of tests and specific test instruments. Especially recommended is the Essentials of Psychological Assessment Series published by John Wiley and Sons. A partial list of titles in the series follows. For other books search the Milner Catalog.
Essentials of 16PF Assessment
[Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire]
Floor 3 Shelves BF 698 .8 .S5 C265 2003
Essentials of Assessment Report Writing
Floor 5 Shelves RC 469 .E875 2004
Essentials of Assessment with Brief Intelligence Tests
Floor 3 Shelves BF 431 .H573 2007
Essentials of Bayley Scales of Infant Development II Assessment
Floor 5 Shelves RJ 51 .D48 B52 2000
Essentials of Behavioral Assessment
Floor 3 Shelves BF 722.3 .R36 2002
Essentials of Cognitive Assessment with KAIT and Other Kaufman Measures
[Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test]
Floor 3 Shelves BF 432.5 .K38 L53 2000
Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment
Floor 3 Shelves BF 431 .F437 2001
Essentials of Individual Achievement Assessment
Floor 3 Shelves LB 3060.3 .S62 2001
Essentials of KABC-II Assessment
[Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children]
Floor 3 Shelves BF 432.5 .K38 E87 2005
Essentials of Millon Inventories Assessment, 2nd Edition
Floor 5 Shelves RC 473 .M48 S77 2002
Essentials of MMPI-2 Assessment
[Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory]
Floor 3 Shelves BF 698.8 .M5 N53 2001
Essentials of MMPI-A Assessment
[Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for Adolescents, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory]
Floor 5 Shelves RJ 503.7 .M56 A729 2002
Essentials of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment
Floor 3 Shelves BF 698.8 .M94 Q45 2000
Essentials of Neuropsychological Assessment
Floor 5 Shelves RC 386.6 .N48 H43 2002
Essentials of Nonverbal Assessment
Floor 3 Shelves BF 432.5 .I55 M33 2001
Essentials of PAI Assessment
[Personality Assessment Inventory]
Floor 5 Shelves RC 473 .P56 M667 2003
Essentials of Psychological Testing
Floor 3 Shelves BF 176 .U73 2004
Essentials of Rorshach Assessment
Floor 3 Shelves BF698.8 .R5 R67 2001
Essentials of Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales (SBS) Assessment
Floor 3 Shelves BF 432.5 .S8 R65 2004
Essentials of TAT and Other Storytelling Techniques Assessment
[Thematic Apperception Test, Personality Assessment of Children]
Floor 5 Shelves RC 473 .T48 T44 2001
Essentials of WISC-III and WPPSI-R Assessment
[Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence]
Floor 3 Shelves BF 432.5 .W42 K36 2000
Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment
[Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children]
Floor 3 Shelves BF 432.5 .W42 F58 2004
Essentials of WJ III Cognitive Abilities Assessment
[Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability]
Floor 3 Shelves BF 432.5 .W66 E88 2002
Essentials of WJ III Tests of Achievement Assessment
[Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery]
Floor 3 Shelves LB 1131.75 .W66 M37 2001
Essentials of WPPSI-III Assessment
[Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence]
Floor 3 Shelves BF 432.5 .W424 L53 2004
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The following sources provide reviews of tests in addition to basic information. In some instances, sources include complete reviews. In other instances, sources provide a list of articles and books that contain test reviews.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Floor 2 Reference Z 5814 .P8B932
Sometimes referred to as "Buros" because it is published by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Print source. Reviews of commercially published tests.
Mental Measurements Yearbook (online)
Online version of the print source.
Sometimes referred to as "Buros" because it is published by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Covers 9th to 17th editions, not the entire print set. When new versions of tests are added to the online database, references to older versions are deleted. For information about superceded tests, use the print version of this title. Caution: When attempting to email or print entries in MMY online, select "ASCII Full Text (if available)" in the citation manager at the bottom of the entry screen if you want to include full text of reviews with your email or print. Search Now
Test Critiques
Floor 3 Shelves BF 176 .T418
Print source. In 11 volumes. Use the index in the last volume to locate tests throughout the series.
Commissioned Reviews of 250 Psychological Tests
Floor 3 Shelves BF 176 .C65 2000
Print source. Reviews of tests published during the 1990s but not covered in Mental Measurements Yearbook or Test Critiques.
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Finding basic information and reviews of tests is a relatively painless process using the sources identified above. However, getting test instruments can be frustrating.
A key determinant in whether a test instrument might be available is whether the test has been commercially published.
If a test has been commercially published, it might be available at Milner Library. If not available at Milner, about the only way to obtain the test would be to order a copy from the publisher ... commercial tests cannot be ordered from other libraries via interlibrary loan.
If a test has not been commercially published, it might be available in the Tests in Microfiche collection at Milner, in a book that includes a compilation of test instruments, or in an appendix or addendum to a research article or document.
TEST INSTRUMENTS AVAILABLE IN TEST COLLECTIONS AT MILNER LIBRARY
Educational and Psychological Test File
(Inquire at the Floor 2 reference desk.)
The Test File is a collection of approximately 600 commercially published educational and psychological tests arranged in 50 broad subject categories. Tests in this collection are included in the Milner Catalog. Tests may be checked out for use in the building. Tests cannot be removed from the library. Tests cannot legally be copied without prior permission from the publisher.
Tests in Microfiche
(Microfiche cards are located in the Storage Basement facility. Inquire at the Floor 2 reference desk for assistance.)
Tests in Microfiche is a collection of approximately 1,300 tests selected from the professional literature. These tests are not commercially published. Tests in this collection are not included in the Milner Catalog. To identify materials in this collection use the print indexes located in the Floor 2 reference collection at LB1131 .T55X. You can also generate a list of tests in the collection by searching Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences: Tests Available in Compilation Volumes, a Web site compiled by Helen Hough of the University of Texas at Arlington. Tests in this collection may be used without further author/publisher permission.
Special Education Tests
(Inquire at the Floor 2 reference desk)
Milner Library houses a collection of commercially published tests purchased by the Department of Special Education. Use of these tests is restricted to students enrolled in certain Special Education classes. Authorized students may borrow tests in this collection for up to two weeks.
TEST INSTRUMENTS AVAILABLE IN COMPILATION VOLUMES
Non-commercial test instruments are sometimes included in books about tests or in special print compilations typically organized by subject. For example, persons interested in test instruments related to marketing and consumer behavior might consult the book entitled Handbook of Marketing Scales: Multi Item Measures for Marketing and Consumer Behavior Research.
Listed below are a few such compilations available at Milner Library. For an extensive list of test compilations see Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences: Tests Available in Compilation Volumes, a Web site compiled by Helen Hough, Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Texas at Arlington. To locate copies of compilations identified through Hough's Web site, search the Milner Catalog.
Assessing Children's Well-Being: A Handbook of Measures
Floor 5 Shelves RJ 50 .A835 2004
Includes 20 instruments
Experience at Work: A Compendium and Review of 249 Measures and Their Use
Floor 4 Shelves HF 5549.5 .A83 E9 1981
Includes 93 instruments.
Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques: Instruments & Index
Floor 2 Reference HQ 728 .H267 2001
Includes 168 instruments (see Volume 3).
Handbook of Scales for Research in Crime and Delinquency
Floor 2 Reference HV 9274 .B76 1983
Includes 99 instruments.
Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures
Floor 2 Reference HQ 60 .H36 1998
Includes 225 instruments.
Handbook of Tests and Measurement in Education and the Social Sciences
Floor 2 Reference LB 3051 .L4543 2000
Includes 125 instruments.
Measures for Clinical Practice
Volume 1: Couples, Families, and Children
Volume 2: Adults
Floor 2 Reference BF 176 .C66 2007
See Floor 3 for previous editions.
Emphasis is on rapid assessment. Includes 423 instruments. For a list of instruments by subject, see "Instruments Cross-Indexed by Problem Area," starting on page xxx of each volume.
Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes
Floor 2 Reference BF 698.4 .M38 1991
Includes 112 instruments
The Psychologist's Book of Personality Tests
Floor 2 Reference BF 698.5 J35 2001
Includes 24 instruments.
Sociological Measurement: An Inventory of Scales and Indices
Floor 4 Shelves H62 .B66 1967
Includes 25 instruments.
Sourcebook of Adult Assessment Strategies
Floor 5 Shelves RC 473 .P78 S38 1995
Includes 67 instruments.
The Sourcebook of Nonverbal Measures: Going Beyond Words
Floor 6 Shelves P 99.5 S58 2005
Includes 27 instruments.
TEST INSTRUMENTS AVAILABLE IN RESEARCH LITERATURE
Some authors include test instruments in appendices or addenda to their journal articles, books, book chapters, research reports, or dissertations. Locating these can be tricky. Use research databases available on the Milner website. Search techniques vary depending on the database and the database vendor.
PsyINFO (Ovid)
In the Ovid version of PsycINFO available through Milner Library, conduct a search for the title or type of test you seek. Then conduct a keyword search for the word "appended." Combine your results sets with the AND operator. Your results will include citations to articles with some type of materials appended, oftentimes test instruments.
Example:
Say you are interested in finding instruments that test post traumatic stress disorder. Try the following search.
Conduct a keyword search for post traumatic stress disorder. Use the mapping function. Map your search to the subject term Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and conduct the search.
Conduct a keyword search for the word appended. Do not use the mapping function.
Combine the two retrieval sets using the AND operator.
Review your results, and use FindIt to locate the articles or books of interest.
PsycINFO has a convenient Tests & Measures limiter as well. Using the Tests & Measures limiter restricts your results to articles or books about a test instrument and eliminates articles and books about research that uses an instrument but are about some other topic. Using the Tests & Measures limiter does not limit results to articles or books that include copies of test instruments.
ERIC (Ovid)
Conduct a search for the title or type of test you seek. Then use the More Limits feature. In the Publication Types limiter, select Tests or Evaluation Instruments. Your results will include both articles and documents about tests. Authors rarely include test instruments with their articles. However, some authors include test instruments in appendices to their documents. Consequently, it may be helpful to further limit your search to RIE (ERIC Documents).
ERIC (FirstSearch)
The FirstSearch interface for ERIC does not include a Publication Type limiter. Instead, enter the title or type of test you seek one search box. In another search box enter either 160 or tests questionnaires and search by Record Type.
ERIC (Department of Education)
When searching the Department of Education interface, use the Publication Type(s) limiter, selecting Tests/Questionnaires. Consider using the Full-Text Availability limiter as well to limit your results to documents available in full text and likely to have test instruments attached.
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