Library Guides: PSYC 571: Tests and Measurements (Harrisburg): Finding a Few Questions Fast

Finding a Few Questions Fast

If you are working on a simple assignment and just about any test will help, try these:

Measures for Clinical Practice and Research: a Sourcebook by Joel Fischer; Kevin Corcoran; David W. Springer
Call Number: BF176.F57 2020 (1st floor)

ISBN: 9780190655792

Publication Date: 2020-02-27

Contains hundreds of measures that are ready-to-use. Volume 1 focuses on couples, families, and children. Volume 2 focuses on adults.

PsycTESTS (formerly listed as APA PsycTests®)
The library's best database for Psychology instruments. To focus on entries that provide test questions, choose "full text." If you do so, each result will include a document with a cover-page that indicates the author(s), original source, and a statement regarding the authors' permission for using the test. Following the cover page is the test itself.

PsycTESTS is a research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration.

Sources of Freely Available Tests

BRFSS Questionnaires
Surveys used by the CDC to assess behavioral health risks.
CHIPTS Resource Library
CHIPTS, a research center within UCLA, offers a library of freely-available tests relating to alcohol/drug use, HIV-AIDS, and other community health issues.
National Survey of Children's Health Questionnaires
Questions used for an annual survey by the Health Resources and Services Administration.
NAEP Questionnaires
Student, teacher, and other questionnaires used for the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Positive Psychology Research Center
Questionnaires developed by the University of Pennsylvania relating to positive psychology.
RAND Surveys
A collection of surveys developed for health policy research.

Poll Data

If you are interested in people’s attitudes toward education, health, race, or other social issues, try public opinion polls.

CAUTION: These databases contain poll questions dating back to the 1930s, as well as recent surveys. Also, these databases do not provide information about whether the questions were valid or well-designed.

Roper iPoll
Includes Gallup, NBC, Fox, and other popular polls.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion back to the 1930s. A comprehensive source for US nationwide public opinion data from academic, commercial, and media survey organizations.
Odum Institute Dataverse Network
Another source of public opinion polling data.

The Odum Institute maintains one of the oldest archives of polling data in the United States and is the exclusive repository for Louis Harris public opinion data. The Odum Institute Dataverse Network provides access to all of the data collections curated by the Odum Institute and from other scholars. The site allows access to downloadable data and allows researchers to do online analysis as well as sub-setting of large data sets.
Health Poll Database
Includes questions, code books, and other information regarding more than 10,000 U.S. and 8,000 international polls going back to the 1930s.

Covers eighty years of national public opinion polling from health-related U.S. survey questions. Searchable questions and results, demographic crosstabs, and trends are available on every topic related to health, from social determinants and influences on health to insurance, costs and health-care utilization.