Finding Psychosocial and Educational Tests and Measures

• Search in All Fields or Keywords if you are generally looking for tests on a topic.
• Search in Test Name if you know the name of a test you are looking for.
• The search limits allow you to restrict your results by test availability, administration method, population, etc.
• Most of the test records in PsycTESTS contain the full-text PDF of the test.
• Search in Tripod for the full-text of any associated development and review articles.

To narrow your search to articles containing tests and measurement instruments on, for instance, anxiety:

• Find anxiety in AB Abstract
• And test* or measure* or assessment or survey or questionnaire or checklist or scale in AB Abstract
• And appended in AB Abstract
• Alternatively, there is a Tests and measures field in the search limits where you can look up articles that are about or have employed particular tests.

• Enter your test name or keywords in the search box.
• Select Primary Source under Source Code.
• Click Search to see the list of results, which are sorted by score (relevance).
• Click the name of the test to find out more about the test and the article in which it's published ("Source" field).
• Use the Find It button to locate the full text source article in Tripod.

• Disable your browser's pop-up blocker for this database.
• Click the Search the Test Link database link. 
• Do a Subject Search or a Title Search, depending on whether or not you are looking for a known test.
• Read the citation and the Materials Notes to see if the test is reprinted. If a corporate address is listed, the test is commercial.
• Look up the journal in Tripod to see if we have have the right year and volume.
• Make an Interlibrary Loan request if we do not have print or electronic access.