Evidence-Based Practice in Education
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"'What gets measured gets done' is a common saying among researchers."
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About This Guide
This guide on Educational and Psychological Tests and Measures highlights scholarly sources available through Boston University Libraries, as well as some freely available material.
Your comments and questions are always welcome. Please feel free to recommend print and online additions.
Professional Association: American Psychological Association
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Search and Discover Tests and Measures
If you already know the name of the test you want, first try finding it within BU Libraries Search. We may have access to a scale you are looking for either online or within the Pickering Educational Resources Library.
- APA PsycTests This link opens in a new window
PsycTESTS provides descriptive summaries and the full text, when available, for thousands of non-commercial psychological tests and measures. Also provided are summaries of commercially available tests with links to the publisher. It includes a wide variety of test types in many subject areas and, if available, gives supporting documentation such as instructions, scoring guides, and answer sheets. Updated monthly.
- APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new windowWithin PsycINFO, you can find articles with measures attached in full text. Try entering append* as a keyword (this will retrieve articles with appendices, where tests are often contained), AND also use the “TM Tests and Measures” drop-down menu option.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses This link opens in a new windowOccasionally dissertations will contain full text measures. In this database, try searching (test or measure) along with keywords, and then closely read the abstracts to find out if one is available.
- Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences: Tests Available in Compilation Volumes
Search for measures included in books. Instructions at this website are out of date: but if you search the big box at UTA Libraries carefully with TMdb as a keyword, you will find results at the bottom of the page in the "UTA Libraries Website" section. If you find something interesting, open a new browser window to the BU Libraries home page and search for that book title (not the test title) in BU Libraries Search to see if we have print or online access to it. - ETS Test Link
Switch to the Advanced Search tab, change one dropdown to Order Information and type downloadable in the search box. Then add other keywords to another box and click search.
