PYCL 507 Research and Evaluation

Tips for using MMY:

• Published by Buros Center for Testing.
• Comprehensive guide to testing instruments in education, business, health care.
• Descriptive information including purpose, population, scores.
• Lists the limitations, reliability, validity of tests, but not the content of the tests themselves.
• Many of the instruments include extensive reviews written by experts in the field.

Tips for using HaPI:

• Produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services.
• Abstracts from hundreds of leading health and psychosocial sciences journals.
• Contains information about behavioral measurement instruments, including those from industrial organizational behavior and education.
• Search HAPI for articles where authors used specific instruments.
• Searches may be limited to primary and secondary sources.
• Useful for seeing how a test works.

Tips for using APA PsycTests:

• Provides access to actual test, scale, and survey instruments, but not necessarily in the format used for testing.
• Focuses primarily on unpublished tests, those developed by researchers but not made commercially available, but does contain indexing to some commercial tests.
• Commercially available tests indexed by APA are also included, with links to purchase the instrument from the publisher.
• Link to a variety of materials describing the test in peer-reviewed literature, technical reports, or dissertations as well as links to related peer-reviewed literature describing test development, review, or use.
• Includes data on the scope of the test, test implementation, a high-level overview of the test's development, and reliability and validity data (when available).
• More caveats: https://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psyctests/faq

Public website. Brief information on educational, aptitude and psychological tests as well as testing and survey instruments for various other fields.