Finding Literature on Your Theory
For this assignment, you will also have to find research that discusses the validity and reliability of your test. You can find these scholarly sources through our library databases. Below is a list of databases that the library subscribes to that has psychology resources in them.
Searching tips:
- Use the most important words when you do a search, otherwise known as keywords. For you, you would use your test name.
- Remember that many tests are referred to by acronyms. For example, the Graduate Records Examination is often referred to as the GRE. Make sure when you are search that you try both the acronym for a test and its full name.
- Let's say you are doing your paper on the GRE or the Graduate Records Examination. If you typed in Graduate Records Examination into a database, it would find any article that has Graduate somewhere in it, Records and Examination. If you want to search it as a phrase, so only articles that have Graduate Records Examination together, put quotations around it before you search "Graduate Records Examination"
- Use OR to search terms that are synonyms or alike so you don't have to do two separate searches. For example search GRE OR "Graduate Records Examination." That will find any articles with that use either of those names.
- Add in other keywords to refine your search. For your assignment, you will have to find research that talks about the validity and the reliability of the test.
- Some keywords to try:
- validity
- reliability
- accuracy
- effectiveness
- Some keywords to try:
Finding articles
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Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new windowProvides information about English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the print Mental Measurements Yearbooks. This database also includes the complete Tests in Print database, which serves as a bibliography to all known commercially available tests in the English language. EBSCO
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APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowProvides access to international literature in psychology, the behavioral sciences, and related disciplines from professional journals, book chapters, books, reports, and dissertations. Most citations include abstracts.Also included are millions of cited references in journal articles, books, and chapters. EBSCO
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APA PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new windowContains more than 25,000 searchable full text articles from 49 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Coverage spans from 1988 to the present. EBSCO
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Science Direct This link opens in a new windowSearchable, browsable database of journals published by Elsevier Publishers. Subscription includes full-text access to about 1,200 journals in the health and life sciences, and the social sciences - including business, managements, economics, accounting, finance, and psychology. Abstracts, tables of contents and some complimentary full-text may be available in other subject areas. Elsevier
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new windowComprehensive database with 470 full text titles covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. EBSCO
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Medline Complete This link opens in a new windowProvides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals. MEDLINE Complete provides full text coverage for over 2,500 journals with more than 1,400 not found in other EBSCO full text databases. EBSCO
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ERIC This link opens in a new windowIndex of journal literature in education, as well as education-related material such as books, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, curriculum materials, and theses. Links to available full-text. EBSCO
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Academic Search CompleteProvides full text for nearly 5,318 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, biological & ecological sciences, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. EBSCO
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MasterFILE Complete This link opens in a new windowDesigned specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1922. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, it also contains full text for more than 1,000 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. EBSCO
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Family Studies Abstracts This link opens in a new windowProvides records covering topics like marriage, divorce and family therapy, Scholars within this field are treated to a wide array of unique content, as well as highly regarded works made popular in the realm of family studies. EBSCO