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GUIDE TO TESTS & MEASUREMENT in PSYCHOLOGY

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Anderson, N., Ones, D. S., Sinangil, H. K., & Viswesvaran, C. (Eds.). (2002). Handbook of industrial, work & organizational psychology (Vol. 1). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (XHF 5548.8 .H2652 2002).

This work contains 20 articles addressing key concepts and assessment issues in organizational psychology.

Eid, M. & Diener, E. (Eds.). (2006). Handbook of multimethod measurement in psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. (XBF 39 .H2644 2006).

Evans, J. S. (2005). How to do research: A psychologist’s guide. New York: Psychology Press. (STACKS BF76.5 .E93 2005)

Groth-Marnat, G. (2003). Handbook of psychological assessment (4th ed.). New York: Wiley. (XBF 176 .G76 2003)

This includes detailed sections on behavioral assessment, Weschler Intelligence Scales, MMPI, Rorschach, Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), and other tests.

Hersen, Michel. (Ed.). (2004). Comprehensive handbook of psychological assessment. (Vols. 1-4). New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (XBF176.C654 2004)

The Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment (CHOPA) consists of four volumes: 1) Intellectual and Neuropsychological Assessment; 2) Personality Assessment; 3) Behavioral Assessment; and 4) Industrial and Organizational Assessment. Each volume consists of an introduction which outlines the following issues: historical review, range of tests, theoretical considerations, psychometric concerns, tests appropriate for various populations, cross-cultural factors, testing persons with disabilities, legal and ethical concerns as well as computerization and considerations for the future.

Marczyk, G., DeMatteo, D., & Festinger, D. (2005). Essentials of research design and methodology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. (XBF 76.5 .M317)

This text includes chapters on research design, data collection, data analysis and interpretation, communicating results and ethical implications of research.

Reed, J. G., & Baxter, P. M. (2003). Library use: A handbook for psychology (3rd ed.). Washington DC: American Psychological Association. (XBF 76.8 .R43 2003)

Chapters provide materials on tests and measurements, as well as information on locating books, book reviews, and journal articles.

Rogelberg, S. G. (Ed.). (2002). Handbook of research methods in industrial and organizational psychology. Malden, MA: Blackwell. (XHF 5548.8 .H2653 2002)

Urbina, S. (2004). Essentials of psychological testing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. (XBF 176 .U73 2004)

Explains concepts of reliability and validity, discusses common statistics and their interpretation as well as test design.

Find publishing information and evaluations of proprietary tests

Keyser, D. J., & Sweetland, R. C. (Eds.) (1994). Test critiques (Vols. 1, 2, 9, 10). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. (XBF 176 .T419 1994)

A companion to Tests and a source of critical reviews.

Maddox, T. (Ed.) (2003). Tests: A comprehensive reference for assessments in psychology, education, and business (5th ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. (XBF 176 .T43 2003)

Over half of this book is devoted to educational tests. A listing of over 3,000 tests arranged by three broad groups and subdivided by topic. Entries list level, purpose, description, timing, range, scoring, costs and publisher of the test; no validity or reliability data is supplied.

Murphy, L. L., Impara, J. C., & Plake, B. S. Plake (Eds.). Tests in print: An index to tests, test reviews, and the literature on specific tests (Vols. 1-6). Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.
(XBF 698.5 .B878)

This set includes a bibliography of commercially published tests. The second volume offers a title index, an index to test acronyms, and an index of tests that have gone out of print since earlier editions, as well as a general subject index. All volumes index Mental Measurements Yearbooks. Index also available electronically. See online catalog for Web link.

 

Find directories of non-proprietary tests

Goldman, B.A., Saunders, J. L., and Busch, J. C. (1996). Directory of unpublished experimental mental measures (Vols. 1-5). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. (XBF 431 .D57)

Goldman, B.A.& Mitchell, D. F. (2003). Directory of unpublished experimental mental measures (Vol. 8). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. (XBF 431 .D57)

 

Find books on specific tests or tests and measurement in general

Using the library's online catalog, catalog usmai, or other book catalogs below, search under a specific management topic or under the following subject headings:

Psychology Research Methodology
Psychology Research
Psychology--Statistical Methods
Psychometrics

You may also want to specify by type test or measurement:

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Stanford-Binet Test

Catalog USMAI [help]
Books, journals, government documents and other materials in the University System of
Maryland, including UB. You may search up to six individual locations or the entire system.

Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts from Proquest) [on-campus]
Coverage 1861 – present. Indexes U.S., Canadian, British, and other European dissertations and theses; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988. A 24 page preview of dissertations published since 1997 is available. The full text of dissertations may be obtained by clicking the free download button.

NetLibrary [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies. A collection of E-texts covering specifically chosen by Maryland Academic Libraries. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

WorldCat [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies. International database of collections (including books, journals , dissertations, documents, and other materials) held by libraries worldwide. Maryland libraries that own copies of the items display at the top of the list of libraries so you can easily determine if local libraries own the material needed. Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

Find journal & magazine articles on tests and measurement

PsycINFO  [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1887 – present. Indexes 1,300 Psychology journals from nearly 50 countries. Also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters. Same coverage as PsycLit.

PsycARTICLES [on campus]
This database provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1987 to the present. PsycARTICLES includes more than 35,000 full-text articles from 49 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.

Soc Index with full text (Ebsco) [on-campus]
This index features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociology-specific thesaurus designed by expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for more than 620 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 500 "priority" coverage journals as well as over 1,390 "selective" coverage journals. Further, extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included.

ERIC (EBSCO) [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1966 - present. Indexes Current Journals in Education (CIJE) and Resources in Education (RIE). Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

 

 

 

Find tests and measurement websites

Academy of Management, Research Methods Division.(2006). RM Web . Retrieved May 20, 2006 from: http://division.aomonline.org/rm/

American Psychological Association. (2006). Division 5: Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics. Retrieved May 24, 2006 from APA website: http://www.apa.org/about/division/div5.html

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