UCF Research Guides: Psychology: Tests & Measurements

Additional Websites

Buros Test Reviews Online
The Buros Center operates as an independent, non-profit organization within the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. This site includes descriptive information on more than 3,500 commercially available tests, and more than 2,800 of them have reviews available for purchase.
ETS Test Collection
The Test Collection at ETS is a database of more than 25,000 tests and other measurement devices, most of which were created by authors outside ETS. It makes information on standardized tests and research instruments available to researchers, graduate students and teachers. With information about tests from the early 1900s to the present, the Test Collection at ETS is the largest compilation of such materials in the world.
Acceptance and commitment therapy. Measures package
Contains 39 instruments measures potentially relevant to acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), compiled by Dr. Joseph Ciarrochi and Linda Bilich from the School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong.
RAND Health Surveys
The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest.
Tests & Measurements in the Social Sciences
A site created by librarians at the University of Texas at Arlington that provides information on the full-text tests included in 139 different books.

Getting Started

APA Page on Finding Information on Psychological Tests

Databases

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (EBSCOhost) (1985+)
Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of commercially published tests. The database includes all information published after the 10th edition (1989) of the Mental Measurements Yearbook.
Health & Psychosocial Instruments (EBSCOhost) (1985+)
HaPI identifies tests and measures that have been discussed in journal articles and other sources. In some cases, the test itself is included in the journal article. In other cases, only sample questions are included.
APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887+)
To locate a test, type keywords related to your topic. In the second search box, type the word "appended" and select "TM Tests and measures" from the menu. To locate articles that evaluate the validity or reliability of a test, enter the name of the test in quotation marks in the first search box and then type the keywords "validity and reliability" in the second search box.
"contains approximately 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with DOIs for over 1.4 million records. Ninety-eight percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from the1800s to present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages."
Psychological Abstracts:
* 1927-1947 Microfilm BF1.P65
* 1948-2004 print in remote storage

CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCOhost) (1937+)
To locate a test, type keywords related to your topic and choose "IN Instrumentation" from the menu. Or type keywords related to your topic, then type "questionnaire/scale" and choose "PT Publication Type" from the menu
ERIC (EBSCOhost) (1966+)
Type keywords related to your topic, then type "tests/questionnaires" and choose "PU Publication Type" from the menu.
ERIC is available from several database vendors, including ProQuest. UCF students are advised to use ERIC in EBSCOhost, which provides many links to full text and allows users to search multiple education databases simultaneously. Users who are not UCF students are advised to use ERIC from DOE because no login is required.