Finding Measurements
Depending on the measurement, you may be able to find the actual test. We have two specific databases for this. Search Mental Measurements Yearbook first, and then if you don't find anything, try PsycTESTS.
- Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new windowContains full-text information about and reviews of over 2,000 commercially available English-language tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. All entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. Coverage is from 1985 (Volume 9) to the present.
- PsycTESTS This link opens in a new windowA research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about each test and its development and administration.
Finding Critiques of Specific Measurements
Critiques of measurements are typically written about as scholarly articles. The PsycINFO database has the widest collection of these. This assumes, though, that someone actually has critiqued the test.
NOTE: Be sure to put the name of your test in quotes.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowThe most comprehensive database for psychology and related disciplines. Includes content from PyscARTICLES and PsycCRITIQUES. Contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 25 languages. 1887- current.
- Library Search This link opens in a new windowYou may also have luck searching for your test using library search.
Finding Research-Based Strategies
If you need to find research to support specific strategies, you'll want to use one of our library databases. You will need to use the name of a strategy as a keyword (e.g. "problem based learning") and not the name of a specific test.
- Education Source This link opens in a new windowOur largest education database. Contains content relevant to theory and practice.
- ERIC This link opens in a new windowContains a lot of practitioner focused information as well as reports and theses/dissertations. Use with caution because not everything is peer-reviewed.
- Library Search This link opens in a new window
Specific Tests
Here are some tests you may be searching to find. These link directly to Mental Measurements Yearbook.
- Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment
- Adaptive Behavior Assessment System – Third Edition
- Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (VMI)
- Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, Third Edition (KTEA-3)
- Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test – Fifth Edition, (PPVT)
- Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, 4th Edition (TONI)
- Test of Written Language - Fourth Edition (TOWL-4)
- Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV)
- Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
- Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children – Fifth Edition
- Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement
Curriculum-Based Measurements are a different type of instrument (instead of a specific instruction with a name). Here are two articles that can help you:
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