Finding Tests and Measures: Books

Books, especially textbooks, can provide another valuable source for tests. Books may give an overview to the general subject area as well as provide discussion of the application, reliability, and validity of the tests.

Search library catalogs under the following suggested subject headings:

psychological tests
education tests and measurements
intelligence tests
neuropsychological tests
personality assessment
personality tests
psychodiagnosis
achievement tests

Consider searching by keyword to cross a subject topic with keywords for tests, such as test?, measurement?, assessment? (? is the truncation/wildcard symbol in ORBIS). For example, to locate books on measuring aging, you would do the following search:

aging and (test? or measurement? or assessment?)

Use keyword searching for the name of a test in order to find books written about a specific test, especially an established, widely used test. For example, to search for books on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory you would do the following search:

(minnesota multiphasic personality inventory) or mmpi

Orbis (Library Catalog at Yale)

Orbis (the library catalog) allows you to locate books and journal titles available in the Medical Library and other Yale libraries. Books and journals are cataloged under both Library of Congress (LSCH) and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).