Content: Journal article database from the American Psychological Association that indexes over 2,500 journals along with book chapters and dissertations.
Purpose: Provides a single source of vetted, authoritative research for users across the behavioral and social sciences.
Special Features: citations in APA Style®, updated bi-weekly, spans 600 years of content
Content: Psychological tests and measures designed for use with social and behavioral science research
Purpose: Allows students and researchers to find and download instruments for research and/or teaching. Focused primarily on unpublished tests, this database was designed to save researchers time from having to reproduce tests when conducting research on previously measured constructs.
Special Features: Records include summary of the construct, and users can find information on reliability, validity, and factor analysis when that data is reported in the source document.
Content: Contains reviews of test instruments and measures
Purpose: Users may learn about the strengths and weaknesses of particular test instruments.
Special Features: Includes automatic translation software
The search query in the second box is:
test* OR measure* OR survey* OR questionnaire* OR scale* OR inventor* OR checklist* OR instrument* OR pretest* OR posttest* OR interview*
To encompass all the variety of tests and measurements that may have been conducted for your topic
If you know the name of the particular test or instrument, then you can do a title search, as shown below:
To find if the test instrument is included in the article, follow the example below:
1. Type in your topic in the first search box
2. Type in "appended" in the second search box. Change the field to "tests and measurements"
See screenshot below:
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