This guide describes major resources used to locate materials on psychological or behavioral questionnaires, surveys, measures, tools, scales, and instruments as related to the health sciences.
Guide to Tests and Measurement Instruments at the Taubman Medical Library
This guide presents an annotated listing of web and print resources for tests and measurement instruments. Although the site contains annotations for licensed resources at the University of Michigan, almost all are available through the Arizona Health Sciences Library. Please ask for assistance if you identify an item and cannot access it.
A database of health and psychosocial instruments including questionnaires, rating scales, index measures, scenarios, vignettes, observations, checklists, manuals, coding schemes, and projective techniques. The database may be searched by keyword using important words from a title of an instrument, or using controlled vocabulary, descriptors from the APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms and the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Contains 15,000 instruments.
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains fulltext information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas.
Developed by Mapi Research Institute and managed by Mapi Research Trust (Lyon, France), PROQOLID aims to identify and describe PRO and QOL instruments to help you choose appropriate instruments and facilitate your access to themFree access to brief information on all instruments included in the Compendium available on this web site: alphabetically by title of instrument, by generic name, by pathology/disease, by targeted population, by author's name, and by an advanced search engine. Users can subscribe to a more advanced level of the Compendium and receive a greater degree of practical information on the instruments and, when available, the review copy of the questionnaire, its translations, and the user manual.
The APA Science Directorate answers hundreds of calls and emails each year from persons trying to locate the right test or find more information about psychological tests. APA neither sells nor endorses testing instruments, but it does provide guidance in using available resources to find psychological tests. Answers to frequently asked questions are provided here.
Librarians at the University of Maryland designed this site to serve as a tool to help users identify and locate published and unpublished educational, psychological, and vocational tests and measurements, and to provide access to information about the general subject of testing.
