It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the APA Publishing Training YouTube channel. Please feel free to link to or embed our videos in your library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.
This short video shows the purpose of DOIs in your reference list, how to properly format a DOI as part of a reference, and where to find the DOI for journal articles and other content on APA PsycNET.
It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the APA Publishing Training YouTube channel. Please feel free to link to or embed our videos in your library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.
This short video shows how to use the Tests & Measures field in APA PsycInfo to look up information related to psychological tests and measures. First, we’ll briefly discuss how this approach differs from using the APA PsycTests database. Then, we’ll focus on how to use the Tests & Measures field to identify research instruments on a particular topic. Next, we’ll show how to locate research that uses specific psychological tests or measures. By the end of this video, you’ll know when and how to use APA PsycInfo to access tests and measures information.
By the end of this video you will be able to:
Identify tests and measures on a specific topic
Locate research that uses a particular test or measure
It’s Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials available on the APA Publishing Training YouTube channel. Please feel free to link to or embed our videos in your library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.
APA PsycTests® is APA’s database that provides descriptive summaries, full text, and relevant citations on the development and assessment of tests and measures that can be used in research and teaching.
Every APA PsycTests record includes a test profile with dozens of descriptive fields such as test name, summary, construct measured, permission, and reliability.
The full-text test can be found as a linked PDF in about half of APA PsycTests records.
Some APA PsycTests records also include an additional link for supporting documentation.
These are a few of the types of Supporting Documentation that
can help you administer a test or analyze the data gathered:
Answer Sheet
Directions/Instructions
Instructor/Test Manual/Guide
Norms/Analyses
When searching APA PsycTests on its own, you will see an option on the advanced search page to limit your results to a particular type of Supporting Documentation.
When the original test author and publisher have granted APA permission, the supporting documentation will be included with the full text of the test as part of the APA PsycTests record.
If you have questions about supporting documentation that aren’t answered in the test record, you can always:
check the Correspondence field for author contact information or
check the Source Used field for a doi link to the original full-text publication that developed the test.
The screenshots above show how these fields appear in the APA PsycNET version of APA PsycTests.
You can see how this looks on EBSCOhost, Ovid, or ProQuest in this step-by-step guide.
It’s
Tutorial Thursday! In this series, we explore APA’s library of video tutorials
available on the APA Publishing Training YouTube channel. Please feel free to link to or embed our
videos in your library websites or LibGuides, course management systems, or
other locations where students, faculty, and researchers will find them.
