Dr. Jackson’s PTE 5383 Course– MMY

Welcome!

This instruction contains an overview of Mental Measurements Yearbook and its finding tool Tests in Print.

What is Mental Measurements Yearbook?

Mental Measurements Yearbook, or MMY for short, reviews test instruments. Before MMY, researchers had no way of knowing whether a test accurately measured what it was supposed to measure. MMY norms a test.

What is “Norming?”

Norming assesses a test’s validity and reliability:

• Validity: The test measures what it is supposed to measure
• Reliability: The test returns consistent results

MMY entries usually include 2 reviews of the test.

MMY in Print

The MMY in print was first published in the 1930’s, with successive editions in the years following. There are currently 17 editions of MMY in print. The library owns all editions. They are located on 1st floor north.

MMY Electronic

Mental Measurements Yearbook. An electronic version of MMY became available several years ago to the joy of researchers everywhere! The electronic edition contains the full text of all reviews starting with the ninth edition of MMY.

SEARCH TIP #1: If you don’t have a test in mind, type in your keywords to start, but consider using broader keywords if you retrieve no records. Example: class size measures the classroom environment. The broader term environment should retrieve more reviews.

SEARCH TIP #2: Go to the Refine Search tab and and select “Also search within the full text of the articles.” This change should increase the number of records retrieved.

Finding Reviews before the Ninth Edition

Tests in Print in print and electronic format serves as a finding tool for reviews prior to the 9th edition.

Tests in Print electronic. Search in the electronic format. The entries will direct you to the edition of the print MMY for a review.

Tests in print in print. These are located with the MMY on the Reference collection on the 1st floor of the library, north side. Ask at the reference desk for assistance using these volumes.

Finding the Actual Test

MMY reviews tests, but it doesn’t provide the actual test. Part on an MMY entry includes information to purchase tests along with reviews. Chambers Library owns a few tests available for your class to view. To look at a list of available tests. Search the library catalog by call number with the call number “test” in the search box. Watch this video for a demonstration.

Need more help? Ask Us!

Dr. Jackson’s PTE 5013 Class #2– The MMY

So, you survived that first class and now it’s time for your second class!

The Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY)– The purpose of the yearbooks is to provide evaluative information to promote informed test selection. Typical test entries include descriptive information, professional reviews, and reviewer references.

To be included, a test must be:

1.) commercially available
2.) be published in the English language
3. ) and be new, revised, or widely used since it last appeared in the series.

The MMY, in print, in the Reference Collection goes back to the first yearbook and up to yearbook #15.

The library’s MMY online subscription provides coverage from yearbook #9 to the present yearbook #17.

Remember that “Advanced Search” tab we discussed in class?

This can allow you to do all sorts of funky things like search only certain yearbooks, test categories, publication years, etc.

So, if you really want to impress a certain PTE faculty member, I might suggest taking a look at one of their reviewed tests and discussing its absolutely fabulous content ;)

Now, what about those Tests in Print?

What is Tests In Print? Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Information includes test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). Tests in Print also guides readers to candidly critical test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook series.

Now, remember, TiP does NOT contain test reviews, but it will give you quick information about tests such as publisher information, test time, scores, etc. It will also give you something called a “cross reference” which will tell you where in the MMY you can find a review for the test you’re looking at.

For this cross reference, TiP is telling you to go to the 14th edition of MMY and then to test number 54 for the test review. If you ever see a T before a number such as T3:153– This is a cross reference to another Tests in Print edition; thus, you would need to go to Tests in Print edition 3 then look at test number 153.

Alrightie… Have a glorious evening and please remember that if you need any additional assistance please contact us through the Ask Us! link on the library homepage or come visit us at the reference desk!We love questions!

>^..^< Amanda

PTE 5013– Dr. Jackson’s Foundations of Educational Research

Session One– Literature Searching

Finding the appropiate databases for your topic

Once you have visited the library’s website and clicked on the Find Articles (Databases) link, please note the “databases by subject” sorter in the upper left corner.

For this class you might consider choosing the Advanced Professional Services or Education option which would lead you to the following databases:

ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) – Education related articles, documents, lesson plans, technical reports and reviews

Professional Development Collection - Full-text of 500 journals in education, 300 peer reviewed

PsychInfo - Full-text, citations, and abstracts to articles, books, and other materials related to pyschology

SocIndex - Full-text and citations to articles, books, and conference papers in sociology

**Please remember that when accessing these databases off campus that you will have to log in with your UConnect username and password.**

You might also consider clicking on the subjects psychology, sociology or health and medecine if your topics branch into those fields. 

Each of our databases indexes unique periodicals thus your results from database to database will vary.

Ensuring your source is Peer-Reviewed or a Scholarly source

Using Ulrich’s Periodical Directory  will ensure that your article is from a peer reviewed or refereed journal not a popular literature periodical or a trade publication.  Please remember that you will need to type the journal name (not article name) into the search box. 

Ulrich’s is a definite must when searching via ERIC as ERIC indexes all sorts of publications such as trade publications and does not allow for a peer-reviewed search option as some of the other databases allow.

 Backtracking…

What I mean by backtracking is taking a reference you see at the end of an article or mentioned on a website and going to the original source.

All you need to do is look for the journal name in which the article appeared and then go to our Journal Titles tab on our frontpage and enter your information there.  Here, it will show you whether we own access to that journal and in what format (print or digital).

If you ever come accross an article but do not have the journal’s name in which it was published, please either stop by the Reference desk or contact us electronically and we will try our hardest to track down where that article came from!

Please remember that if you ever need a hand in your research process, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text!

And, you can always email me personally @ alemon2@ucok.edu!

I’ll see you around the library!

Amanda

PTE 5383 — Principles of Tests & Measurements — Dr. Diane Jackson

Welcome!

This instruction contains an overview of Mental Measurements Yearbook and its finding tool Tests in Print.

What is Mental Measurements Yearbook?

Mental Measurements Yearbook, or MMY for short, reviews test instruments. Before MMY, researchers had no way of knowing whether a test accurately measured what it was supposed to measure. MMY norms a test.

What is “Norming?”

Norming assesses a test’s validity and reliability:

• Validity: The test measures what it is supposed to measure
• Reliability: The test returns consistent results

MMY entries usually include 2 reviews of the test.

MMY in Print

The MMY in print was first published in the 1930’s, with successive editions in the years following. There are currently 17 editions of MMY in print. The library owns all editions. They are located on 1st floor north.

MMY Electronic

Mental Measurements Yearbook. An electronic version of MMY became available several years ago to the joy of researchers everywhere!  The electronic edition contains the full text of all reviews starting with the ninth edition of MMY.

SEARCH TIP #1: If you don’t have a test in mind, type in your keywords to start, but consider using broader keywords if you retrieve no records. Example: class size measures the classroom environment. The broader term environment should retrieve more reviews.

SEARCH TIP #2: Go to the Refine Search tab and and select “Also search within the full text of the articles.” This change should increase the number of records retrieved.

Finding Reviews before the Ninth Edition

Tests in Print in print and electronic format serves as a finding tool for reviews prior to the 9th edition.

Tests in Print electronic. Search in the electronic format. The entries will direct you to the edition of the print MMY for a review.

Tests in print in print. These are located with the MMY on the Reference collection on the 1st floor of the library, north side.  Ask at the reference desk for assistance using these volumes.

Finding the Actual Test

MMY reviews tests, but it doesn’t provide the actual test. Part on an MMY entry includes information to purchase tests along with reviews.  Chambers Library owns a few tests available for your class to view.  To look at a list of available tests.  Search the library catalog by call number with the call number “test” in the search box.  Watch this video for a demonstration.

Need more help?  Ask Us!