LibGuides: Social Work Liaison Toolkit: Tests &amp; Measures

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Resources and strategies for identifying and locating tests and measures, and reviews of tests and measures. Most resources on this page are available for license or purchase, unless they are marked as open access along with the resource name.

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Tests & Measures

CINAHL
Enter relevant keywords in the search boxes. Locate the search limit “Publication Type” and select “Questionnaire/Scale” and “Research Instrument”.
APA PsycTests
Contains the full text of tests, primarily unpublished non-commercial tests.
APA PsycInfo
To find sources about tests: enter relevant keywords in the search boxes and limit to the field “Tests and Measures”.
To find sources that contain the full text of tests: search for “appended”, limiting to the field “Tests and Measures” and add title or subject keywords, also limiting to the field “Tests and Measures”.
ERIC (open access)
Enter relevant keywords in the search boxes. Locate the search limit “Publication Type” and select “Tests/Questionnaires”.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
Enter relevant keywords/subjects and limit to “Primary Source”; this will limit results to article that contain the measure or discuss its development.
MEDLINE (open access)
Enter relevant keywords and add appropriate MeSH terms such as: “Psychological tests”, “Psychometrics”, “Psychiatric status rating scales” or “Questionnaires”.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Search for the name of the test or measure and limit to the “Abstract” or “Title” field. Check the table of contents of the dissertation or thesis to see if the instrument is included in the appendix.

Tests and Measures: Indexes

ETS Test Link
Searchable index of over 25,000 tests. Tests that were published in journals or books should have a citation for the source publication. Some of tests may be purchased through the ETS store, others may be available from publishers.
Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences: Tests available in compilation volumes
A searchable index of over 15,000 full-text tests, scales, and measures included in over 125 books and other collections.

Tests and Measures: Books

Joel Fischer, Kevin Corcoran, and David W. Springer. Measures for Clinical Practice and Research: A Sourcebook,, 6th ed., 2020.
This 2-volume book contains full instruments on a wide variety of areas relevant to clinical practice with couples, family, children and adults.
Maddox, Taddy, ed. Tests: A comprehensive reference for assessment in psychology, education, and business. 6th ed. Austin, TX: Pro-ed, 2008.
Arranged by subject and indexed by title, author, and publisher. Brief descriptions of tests as well as publisher and contact information
Tests in Print (Vols 1-8). Lincoln: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, 1961-2011.
Provides descriptions for known commercially available tests that are in print in English. (Also included as part of the Mental Measurements Yearbook database on the EBSCO platform).

Tests and Measures: Reviews of Tests

Mental Measurements Yearbook
A database providing reviews of over 3,000 tests and measures. Also available in a bundle with Tests in Print.
Test Reviews Online
Provides descriptions of over 3,500 commercially available tests; over 2,800 of them have reviews that can be purchased individually.

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