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Full-Text Assessment Instruments

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All titles listed in this selective guide are located in the Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library reference collection unless otherwise noted. The location SSHEL RCC indicates the item is held in the SSHEL Reference Circulating Collection.

 

 

In-Print Format

618.920075 As741 cop.1
Assessing Children's Well-Being: a Handbook of Measures. 2004. (SSHEL RCC)
The appendix of this work includes 20 scales and measures. Topics relate to children's health and include family responsibility, coping strategies, health inventories, attitudes towards illness, locus of control, child and parent perceptions of specialty care. The instruments reproduced in the appendix are discussed within the text and information regarding content, purpose, standardization and norms, reliability, validity, strengths and limitations, and further reading is provided.

614.42 C738 v.1-5
Compendium of Quality of Life Instruments. 5 vols. 1998. (SSHEL RCC)

Q.306.85 H191 2001
Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques: Instruments & Index. 3 vols. 2001.
Volume three of this set contains:

Q.306.7072 H191 2011
Handbook of Sexuality-related Measures. 3rd ed. 2011.
The majority of the 225 scales presented in this work are reproduced in their entirety. Among the 80+ topics covered are abortion, abuse, aggression, arousal, contraception, female and male sexuality, gender identification, harassment, heterosexuality, HIV/AIDS, homophobia, homosexuality, love, marriage, rape, sexual risk, sociosexual orientation, and relationships. Each measurement includes comments addressing content, scoring, reliability, validity, and references.

371.26 L5672h 2000
Handbook of Tests and Measurement in Education and the Social Sciences. 2nd ed. 2000.
120 tests and measures divided into such topics as alienation, anxiety, communication, conflict, ethics, honesty, interpersonal relations, job satisfaction, leadership style, mentoring, morale, motivation, politics, self-actualization, self concept, self esteem, stress, and total quality management. When available, each entry includes comments addressing scale construction, sampling, reliability, validity, factor analysis, and references.

301.154 R56m 1969
Measures of Political Attitudes. 1969. (SSHEL Stacks)
96 tests and measures divided into the following subjects: liberalism and conservatism, democratic principles, domestic government policies, racial and ethnic attitudes, international affairs, hostility-related national attitudes, community-based political attitudes, political information, political participation, and attitudes toward the political process. When available, each entry includes comments addressing content, sampling, reliability, validity, administration, results, and references.

320.019 M463
Measures of Political Attitudes. 1999. (SSHEL Stacks)
Approximately 150 measures divided into the following subjects: liberalism and conservatism, economic values and inequality, democratic values and political tolerance, racial attitudes, political alienation and efficacy, trust in government, international attitudes, political information, political agendas, political partisanship, and political participation. Included with the scales are remarks on content, sample, reliability, validity, and results. There is not a significant overlap in measures with the 1969 title above.

291.4 M463
Measures of Religiosity. 1999.
126 scales and measures in the psychology of religion are divided into such topics as religious beliefs and practices, religious attitudes, religious development, moral values, religiousness, spirituality and mysticism, god concepts, religious fundamentalism, and views of death and the afterlife. Included with the scales are comments addressing content, considerations, standardization, validity, and research of the accompanying measurement.

Measures of Social Psychological Attitudes. 1973. (Online)
The majority of the scales in this work are reproduced in their entirety. Included are scales measuring self-esteem, internal and external locus of control, alienation and anomia, authoritarianism and dogmatism, values, socio-political attitudes, religious attitudes, and general attitudes toward people. Also included are a description of the scale, and comments on sampling, reliability, validity, administration, results, and references.

616.89075 C811m 2007 v.1-2
Measures for Clinical Practice: a Sourcebook. 4th ed. 2 vols. 2007. (SSHEL RCC)
Information regarding purpose, scoring, reliability, validity and references are provided along with each instrument in these volumes. Includes an instrument index cross referenced by problem area.

616.89075 Sa289r
Rating Scales in Mental Health. 2001.
The majority of the scales in this work are reproduced in their entirety. Included are scales rating anxiety, depression, mania, psychosis, patient satisfaction, quality of life, substance abuse, suicide risk, and aggression. Geriatric rating scales and scales for children are also provided. Descriptions of the scales are given along with comments on their general application, psychometric properties (reliability and validity), and references.

616.89075 Sch88s
Sourcebook of Adult Assessment Strategies. 1995. (SSHEL Stacks)
The 67 mental health measurements presented in this work are reproduced in their entirety. The organization of the scales corresponds to the order of related diagnostic categories in the DSM-IV. As such, topics covered include delirium and dementia, substance-related disorders, schizophrenia and related disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, dissociative disorders, sexual disorders, eating disorders, sleep disorders, impulse control disorders, and relationship problems. Included with the scales are comments addressing purpose and development, administration and scoring, samples, reliability, validity, and references. 

 

The following resources may have some, but not all, full-text instruments in their entirety. In some cases, only a sample of the scale or measurement may be included.

301.072 M613h 2002
Handbook of Research Design & Social Measurement. 2002. (SSHEL RCC)
While much of this work uses sample items from scales to illustrate ideas, Part 7 ("Assessing social variables: scales and indexes", pp.453-658) provides some measurements in their entirety. This section includes scales assessing social status, group structure and dynamics, community, social participation, leadership in the work organization, and morale and job satisfaction. A description of each scale, along with comments on reliability, validity, references, and research applications, is included.

150.287 H1912 v.2
Handbook of Tests and Measurements for Black Populations. 1996. (SSHEL RCC)
Of the 40+ measurements discussed in this work, many of the instruments are included in their entirety and can be found appended at the end of each entry. When not published in its entirety, a sample of the measurement is included. Assessment tools are divided among the following subjects: world-view; physiological and neuropsychological measures; spirituality; acculturation, life experiences, and values; racial identity attitude; stress, racism, and coping measures; mental health delivery; and work environment. Included are detailed discussion about each scale, as well as comments on scoring, reliability and validity, research, and references.

Q.016.153752 EL45i
An International Directory of Spatial Tests. 1983.
While only sample items are included in this work, test instructions and practice items (available for each entry) are reproduced directly from the test instruments. References are included as well as comments on the purpose and content of the test, the scoring procedure, and availability. Among the spatial tests sampled are tasks involving copying and mazes, embedded figures, visual memory, figural rotation, blocks and block rotation, paper folding, perspective, and collage.

155.28 M463
Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes. 1991. (SSHEL Stacks)
Approximately 150 scales and measures are discussed in this work and all have, at least, sample items from the text of these instruments. Many scales are reproduced in their entirety but are found throughout the 700+ pages with no full-text scale index to lead you specifically to them. Among the topics covered by the scales presented and discussed in this text are life satisfaction and happiness; self-esteem; social anxiety; depression and loneliness; alienation; attitudes towards people; locus of control; authoritarianism; and masculinity, femininity, and androgyny. Descriptions of the scales are given along with comments on samples, reliability, validity, and references.

 

 

In Microfiche

Test in Microfiche (TIM)
The Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library's Test in Microfiche (TIM) collection provides access to unpublished tests. The book Tests in Microfiche, Annotated Index (Sets A-DD) (371.26 T289index) indexes these tests by title, subject, and author. Additionally, Test in Microfiche (TIM) can be found by entering TIM in the Title field in the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Test Collection database and then adding another search parameter (test title, author, subject, abstracts, etc.). ETS represents tests and research instruments from ETS's own test programs as well as other major test publishers in the United States and abroad. The ETS Test Collection contains information on tests relevant to the fields of education, business, and health. The tests are organized into eight broad categories: achievement, aptitude, attitudes and interests, personality, sensory-motor skills, special populations, vocational/occupational, and miscellaneous. For each test, ETS provides information on the author, source, availability, target population, purpose and scope. ETS gives tests call numbers that start with "TC." Test in Microfiche are in order by call number.

 

 

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