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LINKS TO WEBSITES RELATED TO SCALES AND MEASUREMENT
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Maintained by a professor, this site has links to
all sorts of things involving the science of psychology. Among them are
background information related to many well-known measurement scales,
many of which provide the actual instrument. There are also links to
tests that can be taken online.
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These are the folks who have published the Buros
Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print
for decades. They mainly provide reviews of
measures. You can perform searches for reviews at the site and then
either pay to download them or use the references to check out the
material of interest at a library that owns the series.
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The ERIC® Clearinghouse on Assessment and
Evaluation seeks to provide 1) balanced information concerning
educational assessment and 2) resources to encourage responsible test
use. There are links at this site to hundreds of other related Internet
sites.
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The ETS (Educational Testing Service) test
collection contains more than 20,000 tests and other measurement
devices. Some of these tests are available for immediate purchase and
may be downloaded using Adobe Acrobat.
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More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal
Government produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal
Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to
provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information
produced by these agencies for public use. So, the next time you are
looking for who is measuring what you might consider looking here first
before heading to any other government site.
This site is intended to provide rapid access to advanced measures of individual differences, all in the public domain, to be developed conjointly among scientists worldwide, and raw data available for reanalysis; in addition, it should serve as a forum for the dissemination of psychometric ideas and research findings.ISWORLD Survey Instruments
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The site provides searchable indices of constructs
and scales related to Information Systems. As a minimum, the original
sources for the hundreds of scales are provided and the actual
instrument is available in some cases.
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As the name says, this site offers information
pertaining to research being conducted on two main topics: job analysis
and personality.
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The Office of Scale Research (OSR) is located
within the Department of Marketing at Southern Illinois University and
is most well known for its association with the Marketing
Scales Handbook series. The site provides the
Tables of Contents for each of the five volumes that have been
published. In addition, the OSR houses a few "technical reports" that
deal with a variety of scaling issues.
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variety of tests can be taken at this site, several of
which provide insights into one's personality. For
instance,
you can choose between a long and short version of Goldberg's
IPIP-NEO. Related articles and links are provided as well.
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The site claims to have "the largest online battery
of professionally developed and validated psychological assessments."
While we can not independently verify that, it is clear that the site
provides dozens if not hundreds of tests for free.
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This site is part of the well-known Institute for
Social Research at the University of Michigan. The Survey Research
Center (SRC) studies a broad range of social phenomena, documenting the
characteristics and activities of people in a variety of social
settings. Such investigations build understanding slowly-through a
process of assembling basic descriptive data, tracking social change,
and gradually gaining deeper insights into the nature of human
relationships, structures, and processes. The SRC has also published
several handbooks over the years of measurement scales.
