Note: The Miller Nichols Library does not maintain a test collection. Resources listed below include several references to works that may be used to locate descriptions and critical reviews of individual tests and measures. Personal copies of published tests and measures are available only through their individual publishers.
To Find Books
Use the MERLIN Library Catalog and the MOBIUS Union Catalog to find resources relevant to your research. Relevant works can be found using subject headings (Library of Congress) such as:
- Ability Testing
- Achievement Tests - Bibliography
- Educational Tests and Measurements - Bibliography
- Intelligence Tests
- Mental Illness - Diagnosis
- Personality Tests
- Psychological Tests
- Psychological Testing
You may also search for relevant works by using the name of a specific test as a subject heading, for example:
- Bender-Gestalt Test
- Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
- Iowa Tests of Basic Skills
- Missouri Mastery and Achievement Tests
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
To find the location of a book in Miller Nichols Library, see the Location Guide.
To Find Articles
Remote (off-campus) access to databases is available only to UMKC students, faculty, and staff. All other users must access online resources within the Libraries. Begin searching by selecting a database. After selection you will be prompted to provide a UMKC Single Sign-On user name and password OR a 9-digit UMKC ID number followed by the letter k (example: 0123456789k) and last name, as needed.
- ERIC (CSA) 1966 - present.
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Links to selected full text, 1993 - 2004. "The ERIC ( Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational- related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year.... Major areas of coverage include: Adult, Career, and Vocational Education; Counseling and Personnel Services; Elementary and Early Childhood Education; Education Management; Handicapped and Gifted Children; Higher Education; Information Resources; Junior Colleges; Languages and Linguistics; Reading and Communication Skills; Rural Education and Small Schools; Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education; Social Studies and Social Science Education; Teacher Education; Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation; Teacher Education; Test, Measurement, and Evaluation; Urban Education." [Source: ERIC Factsheet, accessed February 17, 2005]
Link to ERIC user's guide. - PsycINFO (Ovid) 1872 - present. Save to del.icio.us
PsycINFO (Ovid) 1967 - present. Save to del.icio.us
PsycINFO (Ovid) 1985 - present. Save
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Contains citations and abstracts of journal articles and other research materials in the various areas of psychology. Link to Ovid Web user's guide. - Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography (1927-1992)
4th Floor Index HQ750.A1 C47
Approximately 250 journals from around the world are indexed for information relevant to the study of child development. Abstracts are available for each article indexed. -
Sociological Abstracts (CSA) 1963 - present. Save to del.icio.us
"CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added since 1973 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. Major areas of coverage include: culture and social structure; demography and human biology; economic development; environmental interactions; evaluation research; family and social welfare; health and medicine and law; history and theory of sociology; management and complex organizations; mass phenomena and political interactions; methodology and research technology; policy, planning, forecast and speculation; radical sociology; religion and science; rural and urban sociology; social development; social differentiation; social psychology and group interaction; sociology of the arts, business, education; studies in violence and power; substance abuse and addiction; welfare services; and women's studies." [Source: Sociological Abstracts Factsheet, accessed February 17, 2005] - ISI Web of Science
Note: This database is no longer available.. Permits multidisciplinary searching for articles from international academic journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. This combined database for the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index offers cited reference searching. Link to ISI Web of Science user's guide. - OmniFile V Full Text (Wilson) 1982 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1994 - present.Provides indexing, abstracts, and some full-text from five of Wilson's full-text indexes: General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
Full-Text Research Articles
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Electronic Collections Online (ECO) (FirstSearch) 1995 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1995 - present.A collection of journals in a variety of subject areas. Users can view bibliographic information for all journals and view full-text articles from journals to which the University Libraries subscribe. Link to FirstSearch web user's guide. -
Journals@Ovid (Ovid) 1993 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1993 - present.Covers scientific, technical, medical, and dental journals. Link to Ovid Web user's guide. - JSTOR 1838 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text. Coverage varies by title.
New Additional journals are now available with the addition of these collections: A&S Complement, A&S V, and Business II.Contains fully searchable scanned articles from selected journals in a broad range of disciplines, including African-American studies, art, ecology, economics, education, history, law, literature, music, general science, sociology, and statistics. (To see a complete list of discipines and journal titles, link to the JSTOR browse list.) Covers the full run of journals from the first issue of volume one; however, the most recent three to five years of journals are not generally available. - Project MUSE (Premium Collection) Save to del.icio.us
Full text 1993 - present.
New Additional journals are now available with the upgrade to Project MUSE Premium Collection. Supplies full-text articles from scholarly journals in literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies. -
ScienceDirect Save to del.icio.us (Elsevier) 1823 - present; coverage
varies by title.
Selected full text 2000 - present; Clinics of North America titles 1996 - present.
New Additional journals are now available with the addition of the Freedom Collection.This database indexes scholarly journals published by Elsevier on all subjects, but primarily in the sciences and social sciences. It includes 2500+ journals (2000+ with full text from the Freedom Collection). Much of the newer material (since the 1970s) is also searchable in Scopus. Books (6000+) are also indexed (no full text).
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Test Summaries and Critiques
All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, unless otherwise noted. Titles are linked to the corresponding MERLIN Library Catalog record.
| Mental
Measurements Yearbook, with supplements. Also known as "Buros," this provides extensive descriptions, reviews, and references for commercially published English-language tests. Each edition should be consulted since they are not cumulative. Items that have been revised refer users to the edition in which the item first appeared. |
ReadyRef Z5814.P8 B932 |
| Tests
in Print V (2 vols.) Similar to the Mental Measurements Yearbook in that it provides descriptive information and references for tests. However, reviews for tests are not provided. The index refers users to earlier editions. |
ReadyRef Z5814 .E9 T47 |
| Test
Critiques (9 vols.) Provides background, practical usage, validity and reliability information for measurement devices. Consult the references provided for each critique for additional sources of research. A comprehensive index is included in the back of the last volume. |
Ref BF176 .T419 |
| Tests: A Comprehensive Reference for Assessments in Psychology,
Education, and Business A comprehensive reference for assessment devices used in psychology, education and business. Entries provide brief information about English-language tests in these disciplines. |
Ready Ref BF176 .T43 |
| Directory
of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures (4 vols.) A collection of information about experimental tests and measures that are not produced commercially. Each entry provides brief information about a test and a citation to a journal article that discusses the test. Sources of related research also are provided. The index of each volume refers users to earlier volume |
Ref BF431 .G625 |
| The
ETS Test Collection Catalog (5 vols.) Provides information on 18,000 tests and measuring devices. The main entries provide the test title, author, subject terms, availability, source, age or grade level, and an abstract. Be sure to consult all volumes of this work since they focus on different types of tests. |
Ref LB3051 .E79 |
| Index to Tests Used in Educational Dissertations This publication must be used in conjunction with Dissertation Abstracts International in locating dissertations that discuss tests and their usage. Entries provide DAI volume and page numbers as well as the author of the dissertation. |
Ref LB3501 .F3 |
| Measures for Psychological Assessment A guide to 3000 original sources and their applications. |
Ref BF698.5 .C45 |
Web Resources
- Buros Institute of Mental Measurement
(www.unl.edu/buros/) - National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing
(CRESST)
(www.cse.ucla.edu/) - Educational Testing Service (ETS)
(www.ets.org) - ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
(www.ericae.net/) - National
Academy of Science's Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA)
(www7.nationalacademies.org/bota/) - National Association of Test Directors
(NATD)
(www.natd.org) - National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)
(www.nasponline.org/index2.html) - National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)
(www.ncme.org/) - Testing Information Clearinghouse
(www.apa.org/science/testclearinghs.html) - American Counseling Association (ACA)
(www.counseling.org) - American
Educational Research Association (AERA)
(www.aera.net) - American Psychological Association (APA)
(www.apa.org) - American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
(www.asha.org) - Association of Test Publishers
(www.testpublishers.org) - Psyc Site
Science of Psychology Resources
(kenstange.com/psycsite/)
Use search engines linked on the Internet Search Tools page to identify additional Web resources.
For further assistance, please contact the
Miller Nichols Library Reference Desk at (816) 235-1534.
