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Educational & Psychological Tests

Find information about published and unpublished tests.

Using HaPI to Find Information on Tests and Measures

About HaPI

The Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) database provides information on tests and measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) from journals covering the fields of health and psychological sciences, industrial and organizational behavior, and education.

You will not find the actual instrument in HaPI, but you will be able to:

  • Discover what instruments exist
  • Determine the availability of reliability and validity evidence
  • Track the history of an instrument over time
  • See what other instruments have already been developed in your field of study
  • Locate ordering information for a known instrument.

Steps and Tips for Searching HaPI

  • To find only those articles that contain the actual instrument, limit by checking the "Primary Source" box.
  • To search by author name, enter the author's last name and first initial in the search box, and then click the author icon above; you will be taken to a list of author names, where you can select all that are appropriate to your search.
  • In some cases, you can order more information or the instrument itself by contacting the Behavioral Measurement Database Services. Materials available through this method will contain a note within the abstract.

Sources: NYU Libraries and the University of Alabama at Birmingham

Other Ways to Search HaPI

After running a basic search (by a particular test title, or by subject term), you will generate a list of results of that look very similar to the results produced in other EBSCO databases (see Visual 1).  But they are not the same.

Here are some important differences to consider when searching HaPI:  

  1. The titles in blue are not the titles of the articles.  They are the titles of the Test Instruments used.  (See Visual 2) 
  2. Each item in your generated list is associated with an article that uses that instrument.  The title of the article is displayed under the title of the test in blue, and the journal title is listed as "Source".
  3. To find the article that uses the instrument, use the Full Text button.
  4. You can use the Test Instrument's citation, listed on the References page, to locate the actual test.  
  5. If you cannot locate the article or the test, or if get an error message, contact us. We're happy to double check for you.

Source: University of Alabama at Birmingham

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