Research Guides: Finding Tests and Measures : Test Reviews & Descriptions

Information About Tests

The resources listed below contain information about tests and measures such as reviews, norms, validity and reliability, and other psychometric properties. Sample questions may be included, but not the actual measure. If you simply need descriptive information about a specific measure or want to browse for tests on a specific topic, these are a good place to begin.

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print provides full-text reviews and evaluative information for more than 10,000 testing instruments. It includes reviews of tests used in psychology, education, business, and leadership fields. It also includes bibliographic indexing for all known commercially available English-language tests currently in print.
Directory of Unpublished Experimental Testing Measures
Lists noncommercial experimental test instruments currently in use collected from 37 journals grouped into 24 categories based on content and function. Entries include purpose, format, reliability and validity scores, related research and a reference to the journal in which the test was originally described. (Please note: this does not guarantee that the test in its entirety will appear in the journal article.) Use the detailed cumulative subject index in volume 9 for test numbers in all volumes