Locating Tests and Measures
The resources listed below will help you to learn about a test or measurement and read what others have said about it.
Mental Measurements Yearbook is a comprehensive source of all known commercially available tests that are in print in the English language. It includes detailed information about more than 4,000 commercially available tests and measures.
HaPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) covers 15,000 measurement instruments. HaPI can be useful to help you to: discover which instruments exist, locate evidence on their reliability and validity, track the history of a testing instrument over time, see what other instruments already have been developed in your field of study, and locate ordering information.
Notes:
Neither of these resources includes the full text of the test or surveys. The actual psychological tests and surveys may be difficult to access. Some are available only by paying a fee. Some of the tests and measures are commercially available and some are published, but others are not.
If a published study refers to the survey you are seeking, however, HaPI or Mental Measurements Yearbook will point you to the name of the article and source that references the survey. Then, if you're lucky, you'll get the full text in a published journal to which NU subscribes, or in a book in the library's collection.
Search tips:
In HaPI and in Mental Measurements Yearbook, a common problem is getting 0 results. If you get 0 results when you type in the test or survey name, try searching only the keywords that are absolutely necessary; for example, leave the word "survey" out of the search and try only the keyword in the survey name. Does the survey go by any other name? Try variations and use the asterisk for truncation.
Please contact p.coombs@notheastern.edu if you are having trouble locating a particular test or survey instrument.