New Database: PsycTESTS

Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:53:56 -0400
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UMBC now has access to the database PsycTESTS (Ebsco)

Updated monthly, PsycTESTS is a repository for ready-to-use tests and
measures from the APA. It features the full text of instruments that are relevant to psychology and related fields, such as psychiatry, education, medicine, business, social work and more. Subject areas include: developmental measures, aggression, coping or functional status questionnaires, substance abuse inventories, intelligence tests, educational measures, personality assessments, and others.

International in scope, PsycTESTS provides access to thousands of actual test instruments, including

Tests that were originally developed for research and were not made commercially available.

A growing selection of multilingual test instruments.

Information about select tests that are available from commercial test publishers.

Detailed Test Records
Each detailed test record includes a summary, background information, development history, purpose, reliability and validity data (when available), test format and the citation for the peer-reviewed source document.