APA PsycTests – Reliability, Validity & Factor Analysis

If you’re planning to cite or reuse a test you find in APA PsycTests®, you’ll want to check the reliability, validity, and factor analysis to make sure it suits your research. Reliability is the ability of a test to measure an attribute consistently. If a group of people takes a personality test and many of […]

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How Permissions Work in PsycTESTS

PsycTESTS® is a research database that provides information on tests that originated in the scholarly literature. Tests are mined from the journals currently covered in the PsycINFO database. PsycTESTS records include citations and links to articles that discuss the development of the test and how it can be used. Each PsycTESTS record includes a Permissions […]

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Setting up a PsycTESTS Search

PsycTESTS® is a research database that provides information on tests mined from the scholarly literature in PsycINFO®. Nearly 40,000 unique tests are represented in PsycTESTS, organized into 15 instrument types and 30 classifications. There are a number of ways to search for a test, including the author name, keywords, test name, or test construct. (A […]

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What’s New in PsycTESTS®?

PsycTESTS® celebrated its third anniversary in November 2014, and researchers of all kinds have now had ample time to use the database and provide us with feedback. In response to that feedback, we’ve enhanced it with a number of new features you suggested in a recent reload (or major update) of the database. We think […]

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