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Sources for Screening and Assessment Tools, Instruments, and Measures

Websites and compendia listing tools, instruments and measures of assessment.


 

Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
Publishes Tests in Print, a comprehensive bibliography of all commercially available tests that are currently in print, and the Mental Measurements Yearbook, a series of test reviews to help users make informed test selection decisions.

 

Children/youth

Assessing Children's Well-Being: A Handbook of Measures
Naar-King, Ellis, & Frey (2004)
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Describes a wide variety of instruments used to measure dimensions of child well-being, including information about the source, availability, purpose, standardization, reliability and validity, and publications about the measure.

Early Childhood Measures Profiles
Child Trends (2004)
A compendium of early childhood assessments commonly used to measure language and literacy, cognition, mathematics, social-emotional competency, and approaches to learning. (PDF - 3560 KB)

Measuring Violence-Related Attitudes, Behaviors, and Influences Among Youths: A Compendium of Assessment Tools
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (2005, 2nd ed.)
A set of 170 tools to assess violence-related beliefs, behaviors, and influences in children and youth. (PDF - 6010 KB)

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Parents

Parenting Evaluation Instruments Directory
National Network for Family Resiliency
Information on more than 60 instruments to evaluate parenting behaviors, attitudes toward child rearing, parent-child interaction, family functioning, home environment, caregiving, and more. Includes summaries and distributor information.

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Family

Assessment of Family Violence: A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners
Feindler, Rathus, & Silver (2003)
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A compendium of available measures and assessment strategies in the field of family violence, including relevant issues of concern to several subfields and an overview of different assessment approaches.

Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and Their Families - Pack
Department of Health, Department for Education and Employment, & Home Office, United Kingdom (2000)
A series of publications, materials and training resources about the assessment of children in need and their families. Includes assessment framework, practice guidance, questionnaires and scales, and assessment recording forms.

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Trauma

Child Trauma Assessment
Child Trauma Institute
Child trauma assessment measures and other resources for professionals and researchers.

Sidran Institute
Publishes several measures of trauma/dissociation and books on the subject.

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