Library Guides: Psychology (Penn State Berks): How Do I Find & Design Surveys or Other Instruments?

Instruments

PsycTESTS (formerly listed as APA PsycTests®) This link opens in a new window
Thousands of psychology tests and surveys at your fingertips! The best place to look! It also has scholarly articles that assess the validity and reliability of the instruments.
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.
PsycINFO (via ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
PsycInfo offers mainly articles, but you can try searching its journals for instruments by typing in words like survey, test, questionnaire, inventory. You can also change the "Anywhere" drop-down box to "Tests and Measures."
PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
Dissertations & Theses This link opens in a new window
Psychology dissertations often offer copies of the authors' dissertations in the back appendixes.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world, with more than 2.5 million available in full text PDF.
ERIC (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
specializing in educational psychology, offers some tests in its journal articles.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is the major database for education literature, sponsored by the U.S. Department. of Education. The same database content is available on many platforms.

TestLink ETS
This site offers mainly citations to tests from the Educational Testing Service, the world's largest nonprofit private testing firm.

Designing a Survey:

Qualtrics
A web site that lets you build your own survey. Penn State students can request access.

SAGE Research Methods Core This link opens in a new window
Instructions on how to design a valid and reliable survey, interview, case study, or other research design.
SAGE Research Methods is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods links over 100,000 pages of SAGE's renowned book, journal and reference content with truly advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more. SAGE Research Methods contains content from more than 640 books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks, the entire Little Green Book, and Little Blue Book series, two Major Works collating a selection of journal articles, and newly commissioned videos. Our access is to: SRM Core Update 2020-2025; SRM Cases (includes updates through 2025); SRM Cases 2.

Research Data Services
A services within the University Libraries that provides research services for quantitative methods as well as services for GIS and spatial research.

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Psychology (Penn State Berks)

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Instruments