This LibGuide is based on the Tests & Measurements LibGuide created by Felicia Palsson at the University of Southern California.
This guide is intended to introduce users to the basic procedures and sources available to locate psychological tests and measures. This APA website can provide additional information on finding tests and test information: Tests & Measurements: FAQ/Finding Information About Psychological Tests.
Moody Library's Test Center is located in the Reference Room on Index Table number 2. This large index table includes most of the important reference books on psychological tests and measurements, and all of the library books that contain actual tests.
Tests and other measures fall into two categories:
1) Readily accessible tests, scales, questionnaires, measures, etc. found in books and in journal articles (found by using specific databases: such as PsycINFO, CINAHL, and ERIC). The PsycTest Database has the full-text of many instruments. The books owned by Moody Library that contain these tests are located in the Test Center.
2) Tests that are restricted and proprietary: those currently available are described and reviewed in the Mental Measurements Yearbook. A complete list of tests reviewed in the Mental Measurements Yearbook series, from the 9th MMY (1985) through the present are listed for quick reference on the site of Buros Institute of Mental Measurements. If you are looking for a specific measure by name, check the list or MMY first to determine whether it is proprietary, who publishes it, and contact information.
Items here are located on our Test Center near the Reference Desk. You can visually browse those items here. The visual display is not in call number order. You can use the Library Test Center Search to see if the library has a copy of a specific test.
For Reference services & research help:
Example of topic:
Dokoupil, T. (2012, July 9). Is the web driving us mad? The new research into the Net's negative effects. Newsweek/Daily Beast. Retrieved from http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/08/is-the-internet-making-us-crazy-what-the-new-research-says.html