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PSYCHOLOGY TESTS AND MEASUREMENTS

(Buros) Mental Measurements Yearbook
REF Z5814.P8A9
Multi-volume set is basic source for information and critical reviews of standardized and commercially-available tests and measures.

Tests in Print
REF Z 5814.E9B8
Multi-volume set provides annotated bibliography of tests in print, references on specific tests, and directory of tests publishers, as well as a comprehensive, cumulative index to Mental Measurements Yearbook, Personality Tests and Reviews, and Reading Tests and Reviews.

Tests: A Comprehensive Reference for Assessment in Psychology, Education, and Business (3rd ed)
REF BF 176.T43 1991
Provides information on description, purpose, scoring, cost, and publisher for covered tests. Indexed by test title, author, scoring service, publisher, and visual-impairment use. 2nd edition (1986) and 1st edition and supplement (1983) are also in REF under same call number.

Test Critiques
REF BF 176 T419
10-volume set evaluates psychological tests. For each test there is: an Introduction (detailed description and historical development background); Practical Applications/Uses (settings, appropriate and inappropriate subjects, administration, scoring, and interpretation; Technical Aspects (reliability and validity studies, expert evaluations); and an overall critique of the test. Each volume provides a cumulative test-title index to all previous volumes.

Gender Roles: A Handbook of Tests and Measures
REF HM253 B43 1990
Provides information on scales of gender roles, children and gender, gender stereotypes, marital and parental roles, employee roles, multiple roles, and attitudes toward gender roles. For each scale, information is provided on title, authors, date, measured variable(s), instrument type, description, sample items, previous subject pools, appropriate use, administration, scoring, development, reliability, validity, articles on scale, other studies scales was used in, bibligraphy, and availability.

ETS Test Collection Catalog
REF LB 3051.E79
Multi-volume set provides scope, target audience, and availability; covers standardized, commercially-available tests, as well as research instruments. Also available electronically at

Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures
REF Z5814.P8G63
Provides information, references, and reports on experimental measures in psychology, education, personnel, and sociology.

Survey Kit (2nd ed)
REF HN29 S724 2003
10-volume set covers many areas of survey research. V1-Survey Handbook; V2-How to Ask Survey Questions; V3-How to Conduct Self-Administered and Mail Surveys, V4-How to Conduct Telephone Surveys; V5-How to Conduct In-person Interveiws for Surveys; V6-How to Design Survey Studies; V7-How to Sample in Surveys; V8-How to Assess and Interpret Survey Psychometrics; V9-How to Manage, Analyze, and Interpret Survey Data; V10-How to Report on Surveys.

ELECTRONIC TESTS AND MEASURES RESOURCES
ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation (ERICAE-Net)
This site provides a variety of information related to educational testing, including its own online journal, links to related materials, and a how-to section of on-line, full-text books and booklets addressing practical evaluation, research, measurement, and statistical issue. It also contains a full-text library, which provides the full text of hundreds of books, reports, journal articles, newletters and papers on educational measurement, evaluation, and learning theory.

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