Tests & Measures

Test reviews can be found in reference books/works and in journal articles.  This page will help you to locate test reviews.  Not every test will have a review.

1. Search Mental Measurement Yearbook (MMY), which provides reliability/validity information and reviews of commercial, published tests.  Instructions & Tips
2. Consult Test Critiques, a print (not online) source similar to MMY but includes some noncommercial unpublished tests.  Instructions & Tips
3. Search journal articles for evaluations and reviews of commercial and unpublished tests.
   • ​PsycINFO Instructions & Tips
     Journal articles, books, and book chapters in psychology and related disciplines.
   • CINAHL Instructions & Tips
     Journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, care plans, and pamphlets in nursing and other allied health fields.
   • ERIC Instructions & Tips
     Journal articles, conference papers, dissertations, curricular material, documents, and more in education.

• Type "name of your test" in double quotation marks (omitting test, inventory, etc. part of the name):.
• Select TI Test Name field in the drop down menu.

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To retrieve articles that deal only with the psychometrics (measurements of reliability or validity) of an instrument, instead of use in a particular study.

• Type the "name of your test" in the first box (omitting test, inventory, etc. part of the name).
• Type the number 2220 in the second box and select CC-Classification Code field from the drop down menu.

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Too few or no articles?  Broaden  your search to include articles on use in a research study, but includes a discussion of reliability and validation:

• Type valid* or reliabil* or psychometric* in the first box.
• Type the "name of your test" in the second box and select SU-Subjects field from the drop down menu.
  • If too few, or no search results, change the drop down menu back to Select a Field (Optional).

• Type "instrument validation" in first box and select MM Exact Major Subject Hearing field in drop down menu.
• Type the "name of your test" in the second box (omitting test, inventory, etc. part of the name).

• Type "test reviews" in first box and select DE Descriptors field in drop down menu.
• Type the "name of your test"  in the second box (omitting test, inventory, etc. part of the name).