This document provides an overview of resources for psychological testing at Fort Lewis College Library. It discusses the Mental Measurements Yearbook, searching for tests online, validity and reliability, searching the PsycINFO database, organizing citations, and contacting a librarian for assistance. Key topics covered include how to search for and find test reviews in the MMY, tips for effective PsycINFO searches using subject terms and thesaurus, and formatting citations in APA style. The librarian contact information is provided.

1. PSYC 342
Psychological Testing
Library Instruction Session
Valeria Skarbek
Electronic Resources Librarian
Reed 141, x7424
vaskarbek@fortlewis.edu

2. Overview
1. Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) overview: description, where it’s located, etc.
2. Searching for tests online
3. MMY: Scanning the review of your test
4. Validity and Reliability
5. Tricks and Tips for searching the PsycINFO database
6. How to keep articles: email to self and/or export to EndNote
7. APA citation format overview
8. How to contact a librarian

3. Mental Measurements
Yearbook (MMY)
Typical MMY test entries include descriptive
information, two professional reviews, and reviewer
references.
 To be reviewed in the MMY a test must be
commercially available, be published in the English
language, and be new, revised, or widely used since it
last appeared in the MMY series.
 Beginning in The Fourteenth Mental Measurements
Yearbook, tests also must include sufficient
documentation supporting their technical quality to
meet criteria for review.
Volumes in the MMY series are produced every three
years.

4. Searching for tests:
• Go to:
https://marketplace.u
nl.edu/buros/
• If you know the title
of the test, enter it
here. Don’t use this
to search because
sometimes results are
mixed.
• BEST BET: Choose
“Category.”

5. BEST BET:
Search for a specific type of test on the
Category page or browse by category:
https://marketplace.unl.edu/buros/test-
reviews/categories

6. • After you find
the name of your
selected test,
locate its review
in the
appropriate
edition of the
MMY behind the
reference desk.
• Use the free
scanners next to
the copier to
email your
review to
yourself.

7. Validity and Reliability
Validity refers to how well a test
measures what it is purported to
measure.
 Reliability is the degree to which
an assessment tool produces stable
and consistent results.

8. PsycINFO Search Tricks and Tips
• Enter your search string: ex. “Beck Depression Inventory” AND psychometric* AND adolescent

9. PsycINFO Search Tricks and Tips
• Click box above search field: “Suggest Subject Terms” and related terms will appear.

10. PsycINFO Search Tricks and Tips
• Use the Thesaurus to help you figure out what search term to use.

11. PsycINFO Search Tricks and Tips
• If you click on the term in blue, the Thesaurus will show you the year the term was
introduced, broader terms, related terms, and what the term is used for in this database.

12. PsycINFO and ERIC: Use the handouts in the
Psychology Research Guide

13. EndNote:
• Go to Format > Bibliography and choose your references and Bibliographic
style: APA 6th – Sentence Case (so it capitalizes the article title correctly).
• You can choose to Save, Email, or Preview to copy and paste into Word.

14. Citation Research Guide: APA format

15. Need more help?
Contact a librarian 
 Stop by the Reference desk
 Give us a call at 970-247-7551
 Email us at library@fortlewis.edu
Chat with us!