PSU Millar Library Tests and Measurements Resources

ETS

Education Testing Service (ETS) Tests in Microfiche set publishes tests developed by psychologists and educators. ETS does not evaluate tests for their quality or usefulness, and the tests have not been reviewed.

The Test Collection Catalog provides subject/author/title indexing to tests produced in the ETS Tests in Microfiche set as well as tests published in ERIC, in journal articles and by commercial publishers. You can order copies of tests produced by ETS (at $11. per test). Contact Janet Williams, ETS Test Collection, 609.734.5689, or e-mail: pstanley@ets.org.

v. 1. Achievement tests and measurement devices
v. 2. Vocational tests and measurement devices.
v. 3 Tests for Special Populations.
v. 4 Cognitive Aptitude and Intelligence Tests
v. 5 Attitude Tests
v. 6. Affective measures and personality tests.

ETS Test File
(http://ericae.net/testcol.htm)

"The Educational Testing Service (ETS) Test Collection database contains descriptions of over 10,000 tests and research instruments. This version of the database contains descriptions of tests in the ETS Tests in Microfiche Collection, tests available from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service, tests described in journal articles or book chapters, and descriptions that were created or verified after 1989 of commercially available tests. Tests listed in the collection are NOT available from ERIC/AE. The stated address is the last known address."

Published by the American Psychological Association. Information about recently developed or recently used experimental measurement scales. Describes basic test properties and identifies additional sources from which technical information concerning an instrument can be obtained.

Describes tests and measures published in 26 sociology and psychology journals between 1960-1970.

Published every two to three years and supplemented annually, the MMY series "contains descriptive information about tests, including test author, publisher, publication date (including dates of revisions), purpose of the test, categorization of the test, target populations/age ranges, price lists, reported scores, and availability information for users' documents such as manuals. For most tests, evaluations of the quality and utility follow descriptive information. Typically, two independent reviewers prepare critical analyses. Another useful feature of the information in the Mental Measurements Yearbook is the accompanying listing of journal references associated with each test."

Now in its fifth edition, TIP is a comprehensive guide to basic information (title, author, scales, publisher, cost) about commercially published tests. No evaluative information is included.

Buros Institute publications reference each other; notations follow the form of the edition of the Yearbook or Tests in Print and a number for the test in that volume:

9:215 The Ninth Mental Measurements Yearbook, test number 215
T4:315 Tests in Print, 4^th edition, test number 315.

The Buros Institute, has a web site: http://www.unl.edu/buros which provides more information about the institute, the publication of the yearbooks and help files for using the guides.

This source functions as an online cumulated index to the eighth and all subsequent editions of the Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook.. The Review Locator also provides citations to reviews which have appeared in Test Critiques.

Similar to the Mental Measurements Yearbook, this series began in 1984 and continues with a new volume every other year or so. "The critiques offer the reader crucial information on each individual test, such as practical applications and uses, settings in which the test is used, appropriate as well as inappropriate subjects, and guidelines for administration, scoring, and interpretation. They cite normative data, validity and reliability information, as well as what other experts have said about the test. A final feature to each review is the critique portion, which summarizes and reviews the instrument."