LibGuides: Tests and Measures Guide: Tests in Books

Books Containing Test Instruments

The books listed in the subject tabs contain actual tests and can be found in the UConn Library. This list was derived from Helen's Hough's site at the University of Texas at Arlington.

For a full of list of titles, including books not held at UConn, visit:

Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences: Tests Available in Compilation Volumes

Books in the Health Field

eBooks Containing Tests/Measures in Nursing or Medicine

Compendium of Clinical Measures for Community Rehabilitation
Collection of 28 evidence based measures and clinical tests approved by an expert group of rehabilitation clinicians.
Holisting Nursing: A handbook for practice
Standards of holistic nursing care practice plans with patient outcomes.
Instruments for Measuring Nursing Practice and Other Health Care Variables
Select volume 1 or 2.
Measuring Health: A Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires
Eighty-eight measurements that evaluate health via questionnaires or rating scales are reviewed. (2nd ed, 2006).
Medical Algorithms Project
Free registration to website offers selected functions, calculations and documentations.

Print Books

Children in Pain: Clinical and research issues from a developmental perspective
Psychosocial aspects of pain in children.
Designing and Conducting Health Surveys: A comprehensive guide
Standard reference for the designing and implementation of health surveys.
Process Evaluation for Public Health Interventions and Research

eBooks Containing Measures in Gerontology

Assessing Older Persons: Measures, Meaning, and Practical Applications
Assessment of function, cognition, emotions, social functioning, and quality of life in older adults. Includes assessment of family caregivers.
Handbook of Geriatric Assessment
Instruments and questionnaires for use in designing clinical assessment procedures in primary care settings.

Print Books Containing Measures in Gerontology

Research Instruments in Social Gerontology
Instruments for measuring clinical and social psychology, social roles, social participation, and health.
Healh Assessment of the Older Individual
Instruments for nurse assessment of the geriatric patient.
Assessing the Elderly : a Practical Guide to Measurement
Instruments for measuring health, hygiene, mental and emotional state.

eBooks Containing Psychiatric Measures

Meausring Health: A Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires
Reviews 50 measurement instruments and describes their purpose, reliability and validity, and includes a copy of the scale.
Handbook of Psychiatric Rating Scales
Description of scales.

Print Books Containing Instruments in Kinesiology

Kirby's Guide to Fitness and Motor Performance Tests

Books in Psychology & Social Sciences

eBooks Containing Measures in Communication

Aphasia Assessment Materials
Online assessment material from Augmentative and Alternative Communication Department from University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Communication Research Measures II : A Sourcebook
Current measures, scales, and indexes used to assess communication variables. Measures in mass, interpersonal, instructional, and group/organizational communication areas, and highlights work in intercultural, family, and health.
Converstational Skills Rating Scale
An instructional assessment of interpersonal competence.
Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures
Evaluates and compares instruments used in sex research.
Personal, Interpersonal, and Communicative Stressor Inventory
Checklist created by the Stuttering Center of Western Pennsylvania.
The Sourcebook of Nonverbal Measures: Going Beyond Words
Measures in the study of nonverbal communication.

Print Books Containing Measures in Communication

A Compendium of Tests, Scales and Questionnaires: the practitioner's guide to measuring outcomes after acquired brain impairment
Contains instruments to measure signs and symptoms of the consequences of acquired brain impairment.
Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques
Measurement of Love and Intimate Relations: Theories, scales, and applications for love development, maintenance, and dissolution
Interpersonal relations.

eBooks Containing Instruments in Psychology

Handbook of sexuality-related measures
More than 200 instruments relating to human sexual expression are described.

Print Books

Handbook of Scales for Research in Crime and Delinquency
Attitudes of prisoners and juvenile delinquents.
The Experience of Work: A compendium and review of 249 measures and their use
Two hundred and fifty scales for measuring work attitudes, values and perceptions.
Positive Psychological Assessment: A handbook of models and measures
Assessment of human strengths, resources, and fulfillment.
Measures for Clinical Practice
Measures for couples, families, and children..
Measures for Clinical Practice and Research: A sourcebook
New scales and updated information for existing instruments.
Handbook of Research Design & Social Measurement
Useful for social science researchers.

Print Books Containing Sociological Instruments

Handbook of research design and social measurement
Includes section on ethical issues. Available at Babbidge Library Stacks
Sociological Measurement; an Inventory of Scales and Indices
Available at Babbidge Library Stacks (Z7164.S68 B6 )

eBooks Containing Substance Abuse Measures

Alcoholism Treatment Assessment Research Instruments
Instruments used for all age groups.
Assessing alcohol problems : a guide for clinicians and researchers
Instruments for assessing alcohol problems.

Print Books Containing Substance Abuse Measures

Drug abuse instrument handbook : selected items for psychosocial drug research
Instruments to identify drug abuse in teens, young adults, and veterans.
Drug use in America: problem in perspective; second report.
Available at Hartford Library Stacks (HV5825 .U56 1973 )

Books in Other Fields

Marketing

Print Books Containing Instruments for Marketing Research

Handbook of Marketing Scales : Multi-item Measures for Marketing and Consumer Behavior Research (3rd ed)
Measures developed and/or frequently used in consumer behavior and marketing research.

Tests and Measures Guide — Tests in Books

Books Containing Test Instruments

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