Walker Library: Quick Reference Sources: Tests & Measures

Tests, Measurements, & Instruments -- Specialized Library Databases and Books

DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition) This link opens in a new window
DSM-5 is used by health professionals, social workers, and forensic and legal specialists to diagnose and classify mental disorders.
Print copy available: Walker Library, 1st floor Reference 616.89 Am32d 2013
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) This link opens in a new window
Online version of an indexing and abstracting service of Behavioral Measurement Database Services (BMDS). Provides descriptions and references for tests and measurements as well as indexing to journal literature, reviews, etc. about the available instruments. Includes a information for suppliers of tests.
Information in HaPI is abstracted from leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. HaPI also provides information about behavioral measurement instruments, including those from Industrial Organizational Behavior and Education.

Measuring Health: A Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires (Ebook)
This E-Book serves as a guide to available measures of good quality. It includes reviews, descriptions, and test properties of generic and published methods and instruments. Topics include physical disability, pain, psychological well-being, anxiety, depression and quality of life.

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests In Print, produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 3,000 contemporary testing instruments. The MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within diverse areas. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
STAT!Ref (Medical and Nursing E-books) This link opens in a new window
22 nursing and medical e-books, including Stedman's Medical Dictionary and Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice. Limited to 10 or 15 concurrent users, depending on book title. Mobile App Available
Mobile App Instructions (pdf)
Access provided through Tenn-Share, a Tennessee Library Consortium
Contents:
Complementary & Alternative Therapies in Nursing
Foundations of Nursing Research
Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care
ICD-10-CM: Clinical Modification
ICD-10-PCS: Procedure Coding System
AAFP Conditions A to Z
Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses
Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual
EBMcalc
Fundamental and Advanced Nursing Skills
High Acuity Nursing
Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures with Nursing Diagnoses
Lippincott's Manual of Nursing Practice
Medical-Surgical Nursing: Clinical Reasoning in Patient Care
Merck Manual Consumer Version
Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Prioritized Interventions, and Rationales
Nursing Care Plans: Transitional Patient & Family Centered Care
Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual, Sparks and Taylor's
Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan
Pediatric Nursing: Caring for Children and Their Families
Psychiatric Nursing: Assessment, Care Plans, and Medications
Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Peterson's Test and Career Prep This link opens in a new window
Educational and career test preparation and practice, college planning and financial aid tools, resume builder and career development tools. Users must register an individual account to begin.
Resource provided by TN Electronic Library (TEL).

Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures (print book in 1st floor reference area)
Nine-volume book series identifies and describes noncommercial psychological measures from the fields of psychology, sociology, and education that have been devised by researchers and published in 36 top journals. Volume 9 lists tests published in the 2001–2005 issues of those journals.

Tests, Measurements, & Instruments -- Searching within Larger Library Subject Databases

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Indexing and fulltext for nursing and allied fields, 1937 to present.
Enter relevant keywords in the search boxes. Locate the search limit “Publication Type” and select “Questionnaire/Scale” and “Research Instrument”.
Dissertations & Theses Global from ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Appendices often include copies or sample portions of testing instruments.
See ProQuest's LibGuide for more information and database help.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) This link opens in a new window
Enter relevant keywords in the search boxes. Locate the search limit “Publication Type” and select “Tests/Questionnaires”.
ERIC Field Descriptions
ERIC Education Level & Publication Type Limits
MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Citations and abstracts for articles from international biomedical journals, 1949 to present, with full-text for 1,460 journals. Enter relevant keywords and add appropriate MeSH terms such as: “Psychological tests”, “Psychometrics”, “Psychiatric status rating scales” or “Questionnaires”.
What's the difference between MEDLINE and PubMed?
PsycINFO (from APA) This link opens in a new window
Try using the Search Limiter/Filter option for Classification Codes. There are multiple codes applicable to tests and measures. For example: Code 2220 for Tests & Testing.

Also test names appear in the Abstract field and the Tests & Measures field; documents that have the actual test in its entirety are marked "Appended" in the Tests & Measures field; also -- search keywords in PsycInfo, adding the words "validity" and/or "reliability" -- finds articles re: the validity or reliability of instruments on the topic

Tests, Measurements, & Instruments -- Websites

Buros Test Reviews Online
brief description of commercially available tests along with publisher contact info
Compendium of Annotated Measurement Tools
Annotations for some commonly used tools for measuring outcomes in child abuse prevention programs.
ETS TestLink
Finding Information About Psychological Tests [from APA Science Directorate]
guidance in using resources to find psychological tests: (1) published tests; (2) unpublished tests; (3) proper use of tests.
Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Sciences -- MIDSS
Repository for instruments used for data collection within the social sciences that can be used under a creative commons license. Useful for finding instruments for individual research.
RAND Health Care Surveys
Health care surveys designated as public use documents
SAMHSA Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences: Tests Available in Compilation Volumes [books]
Useful for locating known assessment instruments published within books and compilations of books;; gives instrument title, author, date, and page number locating the instructment.
VassarStates: Website for Statistical Computation
This site is created and maintained by Richard Lowry Department of Psychology Vassar College. It contains programs which will perform calculations using a range of statistical tests and methods, including Fisher's Exact Probability Test, Chi-Square "Goodness of Fit" Test, t-Test for Independent Samples, and many others.
Mapi Research Trust PROQOLID
Database that describes health patient centered outcome assessments (including quality of life measurements). Some are freely available for use under certain conditions. You will need to create a free registration to use any freely-available assessments or to submit a request for more information on a measurement.

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Quick Reference Sources: Tests & Measures

Tests, Measurements, & Instruments -- Specialized Library Databases and Books

Tests, Measurements, & Instruments -- Searching within Larger Library Subject Databases

Tests, Measurements, & Instruments -- Websites