Testing and Assessment Resources: Internet Resources

Links and references to screening and assessment tools of use for alcohol and drug abuse.

NIAAA supports and conducts research on the impact of alcohol use on human health and well-being. It is the largest funder of alcohol research in the world.

Links to a variety of measures on health, mental health and substance abuse problems.
The Center is sponsored by the Willma and Albert Musher Program at the Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW).

A how-to text on creating authentic tasks, rubrics and standards for measuring and improving student learning.The author has consulted with teachers, schools and districts on the development, review and revision of assessments and standards.

Index to tests covering a variety of character-type measures including: Academic Attitudes, Affective/Cognitive Development, Civic Attitudes, Classroom/School Climate, Developmental Assets, Empathy, Honesty, Locus of Control, Moral Reasoning/Values, Multiple Character Trait Assessment, Outgroup/Ethnocentric Attitudes, Problem At-Risk Behaviors, Program Quality Assessment, Prosocial and Altruistic Behavior, Self Esteem, Social Responsibilty, Social Skills, and. Trust

Web Resources on Student Evaluation & Assessment

A site no longer updated, but full of information on education.

A 10-item psychometric scale designed to assess optimistic self-beliefs to cope with a variety of difficult demands in life. It refers explicitly to personal agency.

OPRE provides guidance, analysis, technical assistance, and oversight to ACF programs on: strategic planning; performance measurement; research and evaluation methods; statistical, policy, and program analysis; and synthesis and dissemination of research and demonstration findings.

Practical tools that you can use to evaluate community-based programs; information on how community programs can be sustained; and assessments of organizational support for work in the areas of children, youth, and families. CYFERnet is a national network of Land Grant university faculty and county Extension educators working to support community-based educational programs for children, youth, parents and families.

This compendium includes profiles of early childhood assessments that measure language and literacy, cognition, social and emotional skills as well as many others.

The American Evaluation Association is an international professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation. Evaluation involves assessing the strengths and weaknesses of programs, policies, personnel, products, and organizations to improve their effectiveness.

Answers to some of your important questions on testing practices from the American Psychological Association.

ASEBA is a system for assessing competencies, adaptive functioning, and behavioral, emotional, and social problems at ages 1½ to over 90 years. ASEBA rating forms are available for completion by parent figures, caregivers, teachers, youths, clinical interviewers, observers, administrators of ability and achievement tests, adults reporting on their own functioning, and acquaintances of the adults who are being assessed Materials are researched, developed, and produced primarily at the Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families, Inc. The Center is a nonprofit scientific and educational corporation located at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont.

A non-profit organization representing providers of tests and assessment tools and/or services related to education, employment, certification/licensing or clinical uses.

BEST Instruments are a series of learning instruments designed to help employees understand and improve their performance/behavior in leadership, management, communication, presentation, sales, interpersonal relations, team interaction, and other areas vital to a company’s overall performance.

Company that provides testing and scoring for a number of different measures of reasoning and skills.

Located within UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, CSE/CRESST has contributed to the techniques, development, validation and use of sound data for improved accountability and decision making, and explored technological applications to improve assessment and evaluation practice in government, military, and pre-K through college-level education and training.

From the MAPI Research Institute a two level resource for information. Free information is limited but subscriptions are available.

Scroll down the page for the tests.

This IPIP Website is intended to provide rapid access to measures of individual differences, all in the public domain, to be developed conjointly among scientists worldwide. Later, the site may include raw data available for reanalysis; in addition, it should serve as a forum for the dissemination of psychometric ideas and research findings.

Information about instruments used to diagnose PTSD as well as information on how to obtain these instruments. Lots of information on the main website on PTSD from the Dept of Veterans Affairs.