Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Tests & Measures in PsycINFO

Find Tests, Measures and Inventories in PsycINFO

Another tip about finding Tests and Measures. When you get into PsycINFO, type in the domain of interest to you in the search box -- say, body image.
Then go to the Refine Search section below. Scroll down to the box "Classification Codes." Click on the selections

  • 2200 Psychometrics & Statistics & Methodology
  • 2220 Tests & Testing

(Use control from your keyboard and click with the mouse to click on both options.) This should bring up articles that have a strong focus on Tests and Measures in your field.

Here are the results from the Body Image search:
(Click on the picture to enlarge it.)
(I was thrilled to find out that this actually worked!)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a very "thoughtful" and necessary set of instructions for a specialized search. It's too bad I didn't know about this sooner since I was once assigned to look for "experimental" research articles in the social sciences, of which there are few and they are hard to find. These instructions would have helped.

Anonymous said...

Previous comment from Richard Saltzburg signed in as "anonymous"