DATABASES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS Carlos A. Almenara, PhD Online and Offline Resources In Psychological Assessment PSY494P122 (March 26th, 2014) 2 EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE (ETS) Educational Testing Service  The ETS Test Collection is a database of more than 25,000 tests and other measurement devices.  Contains information about tests from the early 1900s to the present, and is considered the largest compilation of such materials in the world.  Downloadable tests have a cost. 3 Home Page: http://www.ets.org/test_link/about Database: http://1340.sydneyplus.com/ETS_Test_Collection/Portal.aspx Educational Testing Service  Field codes 4 http://1340.sydneyplus.com/ETS_Test_Collection/Portal.aspx Educational Testing Service  You may use ERIC descriptors (Thesaurus) 5 http://eric.ed.gov/?ti=all Educational Testing Service  Truncation (* wildcard) 6 http://1340.sydneyplus.com/ETS_Test_Collection/Portal.aspx Educational Testing Service  Searching a downloadable test 7 http://1340.sydneyplus.com/ETS_Test_Collection/Portal.aspx Educational Testing Service  EXERCISE 1:  Using the Advanced Search, use the SubjectSearch field and try searching on your research topic (you might use ERIC descriptors or truncation: *)  Identify the newest measurement tool in your topic using the Year field. 8 http://1340.sydneyplus.com/ETS_Test_Collection/Portal.aspx Educational Testing Service  EXERCISE 2:  Use the AVAILABILITY section of the test record to find a test. 9 http://1340.sydneyplus.com/ETS_Test_Collection/Portal.aspx 10 TESTS AND MEASURES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Tests and Measures in SS  This database contains information on about 14,000 measures available in 139 compilation volumes.  There is a database version in RefShare. 11 https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/jaro2014/PSY494P122/43723478/ Tests and Measures in SS 12 Home Page: http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/testmeas.htm Database: http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/test&meas/testmainframe.htm Tests and Measures in SS  [directory] means the item list tests which have been used in research. It does not necessarily contain the actual test or measurement it may include descriptive information only.  [tests], includes the tests under discussion in the text.  [directory; some tests], the item has information about tests under discussion and includes copies of some of them.  [index] does not include tests unless specifically noted. 13 http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/test&meas/NotIndexed.htm Tests and Measures in SS 14 http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/test&meas/NotIndexed.htm Tests and Measures in SS  Indexes and Abstracts databases 15 http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/testmeas.htm#Indexes%20and%20Abstracts Tests and Measures in SS  Database 16 http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/test&meas/testmainframe.htm Tests and Measures in SS  Collections examined 17 http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/Test&meas/testmainframe.htm#Collections Tests and Measures in SS  Export all the database 18 https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/jaro2014/PSY494P122/43723478/ Tests and Measures in SS  Export all the database (28460 records) 19 https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/jaro2014/PSY494P122/43723478/ Tests and Measures in SS  Searching (site:libraries.uta.edu/helen/) 20 www.google.com Tests and Measures in SS  EXERCISE 1:  Using the exact match search strategy in Google, find and list all the books where the Overt Aggression Scale is available in full text. 21 Database: http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/test&meas/testmainframe.htm Tests and Measures in SS  EXERCISE 2:  Identify an instrument related to your topic.  Save the name of the instrument.  Save the source (reference) in Mendeley. 22 http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/test&meas/testmainframe.htm 23 MENTAL MEASUREMENTS YEARBOOK Mental Measurements Yearbook  FREE: Find free information on over 3500 commercially available tests.  PAY-PER-VIEW: Get access to the test reviews online, as they appear in the Mental Measurements Yearbook series (fee: USD$15,00 per test review) 24 http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp Mental Measurements Yearbook  Search interface 25 http://buros.org/review-samples Mental Measurements Yearbook  SEARCH:  Alphabetic Search: Alphabetical listing of test titles  Category Search: Category listing of test titles  Keywords search: Search for keywords on test titles, acronym, author, publisher, purpose, scores. 26 http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp Mental Measurements Yearbook  Search interface 27 http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp Mental Measurements Yearbook  Alphabetical Listing 28 http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp Mental Measurements Yearbook  Category Listing 29 http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp Mental Measurements Yearbook  Open search 30 http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp Mental Measurements Yearbook  Open search (results) 31 http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp Mental Measurements Yearbook  Limited search 32 http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp Mental Measurements Yearbook  Limited search (results) 33 http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp Mental Measurements Yearbook  Record preview 34 http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp Mental Measurements Yearbook  EXERCISE:  Try to identify the most suitable instrument for your research.  Open the record and look for the section Reviewed In. 35 http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp 36 Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)  Provides access to information on approximately 15,000 measurement instruments in the fields of health and psychosocial sciences:  Medicine, nursing, public health, psychology, social work, communication, sociology, and organizational behavior/human resources.  Approximately 145,000 records.  The full-text of the instruments is not 37 http://www.bmdshapi.com/mission.html Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)  Types of instruments covered by HaPI:  Coverage: Since 1985 38 http://www.bmdshapi.com/type_instruments.html Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)  Field codes available through OVID 39 http://gateway.ovid.com/genr7.9/fldguide/hapidb.htm Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)  Field codes available through OVID 40 http://gateway.ovid.com/genr7.9/fldguide/hapidb.htm 41 PSYNDEX PSYNDEXplus with TestFinder  The most comprehensive abstract (not full text) database of psychological literature, audiovisual media, intervention programs, and tests from the German-speaking countries (30% translated in english)  Records of psychological publications from authors in the German-speaking countries, audiovisual media, and descriptions of intervention programs 42 http://www.ovid.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=13051&catalogId=13151&langId=- 1&partNumber=Prod-140 PSYNDEXplus with TestFinder  Published by Zentrum fur Psychologische Information und Dokumentation (ZPID) at the University of Trier.  Coverage:  Literature: 1977 – Present (~215,000 records)  Audiovisual media: 1932 – Present (~2,000 records)  TESTS: 1945 – Present (~5,800 tests) 43 http://www.ovid.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=13051&catalogId=13151&langId=- 1&partNumber=Prod-140 PSYNDEX via PubPsych http://www.pubpsych.eu/ 44 PSYNDEX via PubPsych  aggression DB="PSYNDEX" DT="TEST/Questionnaire" http://www.pubpsych.eu/ 45 46 QUESTIONS? 47 EXERCISE UTA Database & BUROS Database  EXERCISE:  You found tests in UTA Database & BUROS Database.  Now, use Google Scholar to find recent articles related to your topic and that used any of those instruments. 48 http://scholar.google.com/ NEXT CLASS 49  READINGS:  Publication and citation analysis as a tool for information retrieval (Goh & Foo, 2008)