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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic information about behavioral measurement instruments.
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Psychology
Info type: journal articles, instruments, indexes, tests, vignettes/scenarios
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Finding Tests, Scales, and Measures
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OERL: Online Evaluation Resource Library
The site supported by the National Science Foundation provides instruments used to evaluate projects, inlcuding projects relates to curriculum developlment, teacher education, faculty development, and technology projects.

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Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
Descriptive listings of commercially published educational and psychological tests and scales as well as reviews of many of those tests and scales.
Subjects: Personality Tests, Educational Tests, Aptitude Tests, Neuropsychological Tests, Achievement Tests, Intelligence Tests, Speech & Hearing Tests
Info type: descriptions of tests, reviews of tests
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Handbook of Tests and Measurement in Education and the Social Sciences
Call Number: REF LB 3051 .L4543 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Includes text of 130+ instruments for 40 topics, extracted from the research literature.
In addition to the ebook, the library has a print copy on reference.

Usage note: The instruments are all listed under the Table of Contents link labelled Introduction to the Instrument Section (234 pages!). The first and second pages (91-92) include a list of the categories, which you can look for alphabetically in that long section.
Ebook funded by GAMEABOVE.
Assessment for Dyslexia and Learning Difficulties: A Concise Guide for Teachers and Parents
Publication Date: 2019
Essentials of WISC-V Assessment
Publication Date: 2017
As a widely-used intelligence test for children, the WISC-V is useful in diagnosing intellectual disabilities and specific learning disabilities, as well as in identifying giftedness. Provides step-by-step guidance for administering, scoring, and interpreting the test as well as sample reports to demonstrate how WISC-V assessment results may be linked to interventions, accommodations, modifications, and compensatory strategies.
Identifying Special Needs
Publication Date: 2018
Checklists to help teachers gather information to determine whether individual students need specialised attention and services, and guidelines on how to provide this help. Offers diagnostic criteria and supporting notes for a wide range of special educational needs, including autism spectrum disorders, communication disorders, social and emotional issues, cognitive disabilities and specific learning disorders.
Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Constructs
Publication Date: 2014
"provides a systematic standardized evaluation of approximately 100 scales in 25 areas. Each chapter is written by an expert in the respective area and includes: the variable scale measures, a description of the scale, reliability & validity information, and examples from the scale. In addition, . . . a discussion of which scales are best used for what purpose and population."
Measurements in Distance Education: A Compendium of Instruments, Scales, and Measures for Evaluating Online Learning
Publication Date: 2018
A guide to some of the many instruments, scales, and methods that have been created to assess distance education environments, learners, and teachers. Entries are organized according to the qualities these measures attempt to gauge such as engagement & information retention. Provides summaries of 50+ instruments, with usage info, development history, and validation, including any reported psychometric properties.
Handbook of Test Development, 2nd ed.
Publication Date: 2016
Provides the foundations of test development, content definition, item development, test design and form assembly, and the processes of test administration, documentation, and evaluation. 3- user ebook
Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing
Call Number: REF LB 3051 .A693 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Standards prepared by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing of the American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association and National Council on Measurement in Education.
Psychoeducational Assessment and Report Writing, 2nd ed. by Stefan C. Dombrowski (Editor)
Publication Date: 2020
Guidance on the process of psychoeducational assessment and report writing for children in grades K-12.
Delivering Psycho-Educational Evaluation Results to Parents by Francis J. DeMatteo
Publication Date: 2020
Presents a concrete and adaptable Feedback Model that efficiently communicates complex evaluation results to parents in an easily understandable manner.

Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences
This free database reveals the contents of over 140 books that have compilations of tests. For each book on this list, there is a list of the tests and often a link to the WorldCat record for the book.

WorldCat will show libraries that cataloged the book including EMU and UM. When you see EMU listed, click on the link and it may take you to the record for the book in Esearch. When not readily available at EMU (or nearby) the info in WorldCat can be used on the interlibrary loan form.
Creativity Tests
On this page a professor lists and describes tests for creativity.
See Also: Finding Tests, Scales, and Measures
This research guide provides more details on how to find educational and psychological measurement instruments.
Project Implicit
The mission of Project Implicit is to educate the public about bias and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the internet.

The Special Educator's Comprehensive Guide to 301 Diagnostic Tests by Roger Pierangelo; George Giuliani
Call Number: REF LC 4019 .P53 2006
Publication Date: 2006
Provides detailed overviews of the most frequently used tests for diagnosing suspected disabilities in children from early years through adolescence, including tests related to academic achievement, anxiety & depression, aptitude, ADHD, auditory processing, autism, behavioral disorders, deaf & hearing impairments, emotional disturbance, intelligence, language, learning disabilities, psychosocial behavior, reading, and visual perception.

Formative Assessment for Classroom Teachers
This resource from the National Council on Educational Measurement provides teachers with formative assessment practices that can be plugged into any curriculum and instruction. Each technique has been tested in classrooms and online, and has been shown to support effective teaching as well as deepen student learning.

The Wiley Handbook of Cognition and Assessment by Andre A. Rupp; Jacqueline P. Leighton (Editors)
Publication Date: 2016
Offers a review of cognitive and learning sciences models for testing purposes, as well as the latest statistical and technological know-how for designing, scoring, and interpreting results. Covers conceptual frameworks, modern methodologies, and applied topics.

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