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Locating Tests

Locating Tests. http://www.apa.org/science/faq-findtests.html. Considerations in locating tests. How do you decide if you need a test? How do you locate information about tests? How do you locate the actual test? What do you look for in tests? How do you select the test to use?.

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Locating Tests

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  1. Locating Tests http://www.apa.org/science/faq-findtests.html

  2. Considerations in locating tests • How do you decide if you need a test? • How do you locate information about tests? • How do you locate the actual test? • What do you look for in tests? • How do you select the test to use?

  3. Some dimensions of tests • Standardization • Commercial • Author • Cost • Domain • Length • Administration options • Language • Availability

  4. Locating tests/information • Published psychological tests • Commercial vendors • Unpublished psychological tests • Scholarly publications • Internet • Commercial publications • Create own

  5. Published Standardized Psychological Tests • The Buros Institute • Tests in Print (TIP) • Mental Measurement Yearbook (MMY) • z5814P8B932

  6. MMY • Buros Institute for Mental Measurements • 18thed2010 • Not cumulative • Multiple indexes • Titles • Acronyms • Subject • Publisher • Names • Source

  7. Information in MMY • Title • Purpose • Population • Publication date • Acronym • Scores • Administration • Forms, parts, levels • Manual • Price • Foreign language • Time • Comments

  8. Homework due Tuesday 4 Feb • Locate 3 non standardized tests • ** You must have access to the actual questions and scoring rubric. • Submit your own brief descriptions of tests and a reference (where you got it) as well copies of the test questions. • Rank order by preference to use

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