{"id":608,"date":"2009-11-25T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2009\/11\/25\/test-instruments\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:30:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:30:10","slug":"test-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2009\/11\/25\/test-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"Test Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coverart.oclc.org\/ImageWebSvc\/oclc\/+-+79253431_140.jpg?SearchOrder=+-+AV,GO\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer;width: 140px;height: 196px\" src=\"http:\/\/coverart.oclc.org\/ImageWebSvc\/oclc\/+-+79253431_140.jpg?SearchOrder=+-+AV,GO\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/ubalt.worldcat.org\/oclc\/68980742\">Measures for Clinical Practice and Research<\/a> solves a persistent problem for students in research methods classes in fields like psychology: how do you obtain a copy of one of test instruments that researchers use to perform original experimental research?<\/p>\n<p>Test instruments (otherwise known as test measures, scales, surveys, or questionnaires) have always been hard for students to obtain.  Most researchers publish them through private companies that set a high price on them.  Students can easily find the <span style=\"font-style: italic\">results<\/span> of empirical research by searching for journal articles in library databases like <a href=\"http:\/\/researchport.umd.edu\/source=UMD02127\">PsycINFO<\/a> but that doesn&#8217;t give them the actual test instruments that the researchers used.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ubalt.worldcat.org\/oclc\/68980742\">Measures for Clinical Practice and Research<\/a> is a 2-volume set of books at the Langsdale Library.  It gives examples of hundreds of test instruments that students can use for research or class work.  Problem solved!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ubalt.worldcat.org\/oclc\/68980742\">Measures for Clinical Practice and Research<\/a> is available in the Reference section on the 1st floor of the Langsdale Library, call number: BF176 .C66 2007.  You can also  <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=NW6q_C9rjAoC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;ots=2RyddLlbXx&amp;dq=measures%20for%20clinical%20practice%20and%20research&amp;pg=PA253#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false\">preview the book<\/a> at Google Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measures for Clinical Practice and Research solves a persistent problem for students in research methods classes in fields like psychology: how do you obtain a copy of one of test instruments that researchers use to perform original experimental research? Test <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2009\/11\/25\/test-instruments\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Test Instruments<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}