Research Guides: Finding Psychosocial and Educational Tests and Measures: Select Books and Websites with Tests

Finding Tests Printed in Reference Books

Tables of contents are indexed in Tripod. Try a keyword search using the name of an instrument to see if it's available in a print book.

Mental Measurements Yearbook
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Call Number: Reference (Floor 1) ; Z5814.P8 B932
Publication Date: 2017
Available in print at Canaday Library

Test Reviews Online
Allows you to search for citations that have been included in the Mental Measurements Yearbook series (above). Full text is not freely available from Test Reviews Online.

Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences This link opens in a new window
Index to tests and measurements found in over 80 reference sources.

Books Containing Printed Tests

The following is a selection of the reference books in Canaday Library that contain psychosocial instruments.

Assessment Scales in Old Age Psychiatry
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ISBN: 1841841684
Publication Date: 2004
available as an ebook or in print at Canaday Reference (Floor 1): RC473.P78 B876 2004
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Focuses on tests for elderly populations. Topics covered include depression, dementia, global mental health, physical examination, delerium, caregiver assessments, and memory functioning.
Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques
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ISBN: 0803972504
Publication Date: 2000-12-27
Canaday Reference (Floor 1): HQ728 .T68 2001
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Provides full instruments in a wide variety of areas, including marital and family interaction, intimacy and family values, parenthood, roles and power, and adjustment.
Handbook of Psychiatric Measures
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Publication Date: 2007-12-07
Canaday Reference (Floor 1): RC473.P78 A46 2008 (CD-ROM has same call number and is located with CD-ROMs; ask at Circulation or Reference.) Previous edition in stacks.
[List of tests included: 2008 edition and 2000 edition]

CD provides full instrument of 136 tests in the following areas: psychiatric symptoms; health status, functioning, and disabilities; patient perceptions of care; quality of life; stress; suicide risk; substance abuse; and disorders addressing a wide range of DSM-IV diagnostic categories.
Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures
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Publication Date: 2010
Available through Internet Archive or in print at Canaday Reference (Floor 1): HQ60 .H36 2011 (Previous edition in folio stacks on Floor B)
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Provides full information and full text for 218 measures related to sexuality. Additional materials are available online at the book's companion website.
Measures for Clinical Practice and Research: A Sourcebook
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Publication Date: 2007
2013 edition only in print Canaday Reference (Floor 1): BF176 .C66 2007;
2007 edition available as an ebook and in print;
previous editions in stacks
[List of tests included: 2007 edition, 2000 edition and 1987 edition]

MCPR provides copies of hundreds of tests, particularly brief tests ("rapid assessment instruments") for couples, children, families, and adults, in a wide variety of areas, mostly derived from scholarly journal articles. Each entry includes reliability and validity information as well as the questions--just what you need for some professors' assignments. The only drawback to MCPR is that you generally will NOT find popular commercialized tests such as the Myers-Briggs personality test here.
Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes
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ISBN: 0
Publication Date: 1990
available through Internet Archive or in print at Canaday Reference (Floor 1): BF698.4 .M38 1991
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Contains the full text of 112 measures, on topics including subjective well-being; self-esteem; social anxiety and shyness; depression and loneliness; alienation and anomie; interpersonal trust; locus of control; authoritarianism; masculinity, femininity, and androgyny; and values.
Measuring Health by Ian McDowell Worldwide economic constraints on health care systems have highlighted the importance of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based health policy. The resulting clinical trials and health services research studies require instruments to monitor the outcomes of care and the output of the health system. However, the over-abundance of competing measurement scales can make choosing a measure difficult at best. Measuring Health provides in-depth reviews of over 100 of the leading health measurement tools and serves as a guide for choosing among them.LNow in its third edition, this book provides a critical overview of the field of health measurement, with a technical introduction and discussion of the history and future directions for the field. This latest edition updates the information on each of the measures previously reviewed, and includes a complete new chapter on anxiety measurement to accompany the one on depression. It has also added new instruments to those previously reviewed in each of the chapters in the book.LChapters cover measurements of physical disability, social health, psychological well-being, anxiety, depression, mental status testing, pain, general health status and quality of life. Each chapter presents a tabular comparison of the quality of the instruments reviewed, followed by a detailed description of each method, covering its purpose and conceptual basis, its reliability and validity and, where possible, shows a copy of the actual scale. To ensure accuracy of the information, each review has been approved by the original author of each instrument or by an acknowledged expert.
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ISBN: 0195165675
Publication Date: 2006
Outcomes Assessment in Clinical Practice
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ISBN: 0683076302
Publication Date: 1996
Available through Internet Archive or in print at Canaday Reference (Floor 1): RC454.4 .O855 1996

Focuses on assessing the outcomes of therapy, providing instruments to be taken by clinicians, clients, and the client's family members.
Rating Scales in Mental Health
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Publication Date: 2003
Available through Internet Archive or in print at Canaday Reference (Floor 1): RC473.P78 S245 2003
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Tests included cover a wide variety of mental health issues, such as depression, anxiety, drug and alcohol abuse, sexual function, and self-awareness of psychiatric problems.
Taking the Measure of Work
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ISBN: 0761924256
Publication Date: 2002
Available as an ebook or in print at Canaday Reference (Floor 1): HM786 .F54 2002
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Focuses on all areas of work and employment situations, including job satisfaction, job commitment, employee burnout, occupational stress, role conflict, work-family conflict, values related to work, and more.

Select Tests Available Online

Free Online Tests
A list of free online tests from the Index of Scholarly Psychology References on the Web
Measuring Intimate Partner Violence Victimization and Perpetration: A Compendium of Assessment Tools
PDF of a book published by the CDC: Violence Prevention. Includes more than 20 scales "for measuring the self-reported incidence and prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence victimization and perpetration."
Measuring Violence-Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors Among Youths: A Compendium of Assessment Tools
PDF of a book published by the CDC. Contains more than 100 measures designed "to assess violence-related beliefs, behaviors, and influences, as well as to evaluate programs to prevent youth violence."
Psychological Tests for Student Use
List of copyrighted tests that students have permission to use (and so don't have to go through the permission inquiry process), from York University
Social-Personality Psychology Questionnaire Instrument Compendium
Online compendium of free, public-domain psychometric instruments from Texas Tech.
Surveys/Scales from the UCLA Center for HIV Identification, Prevention and Treatment Services
This site offers more than 100 tests, many of which deal with attitudes and behaviors related to health behavior and attitudes. Also includes measures of anger, anxiety, drug use, coping, depression and mental health, social support, and family relations.