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• CINAHL Plus with Full Text
  Scholarly journal articles about nursing and allied health. Includes nursing interventions, management, education, theory, and history. Also includes allied health topics such as physical and occupational therapy. 1981-current.
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  CINAHL with Full Text (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) indexes over 950 English-language nursing and allied health journals and publications of the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing. Includes full-text for more than 580 journals. CINAHL also covers relevant materials from biomedicine, management, behavioral sciences, health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health. Indexes books, book chapters, pamphlets, audiovisuals, dissertations, educational software, conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, critical paths, and research instruments. Subjects include:

  • Aging
  • AIDS
  • Cancer
  • Diseases
  • Healthcare
  • Medicine
  • Nursing
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Public Health
  • Rehabilitation

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• Encyclopedia of Education
  Comprehensive introduction to learning and pedagogy. Articles address topics related to K-12 and higher education; education policy; learning and instruction; teacher preparation; curriculum standards; and assessment tests. International scope. 2003.
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  Includes biographies of influential educators; profiles of historic colleges and universities; profiles of organizations active in the field; and an appendix of full text primary source documents including education related legislation, international treaties and testing methods.

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• ETS Test Collection
  Descriptions of over 25,000 tests and research instruments. Included are both commercial and non-commercial measures. Note call number and find full-text of unpublished tests in the Homer Babbidge microfiche collection, "Tests in Microfiche." 1900-present.
  

  1975-2004 in Tests in Microfiche Collection of the Homer Babbidge Library

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  The tests include the Tests in Microfiche (TIM) Subset. Tests available on microfiche at UConn are listed as TIM in the Test Acronyms field of the record.

  Most of the records contain detailed information about a test's structure. This database provides very useful test availability information. When a journal article source is identified, keep in mind that the test may not be reproduced in its completed form in the article; instead, you may find the various items identified in the context of an analysis.

  Consult Research Guide to Finding Tests & Measures (pdf) to determine how to find the full-text of material indexed in the ETS Test Collection.

• HAPI (Health & Psychosocial Instruments)
  Citations to measurement instruments such as questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, and tests. 1985-current.
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  Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.

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• Mental Measurements Yearbook
  Information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas. 1989 to present.
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  For each test, the database provides the name of the test author, publication information, scoring information, and the number of the Mental Measurements Yearbook in which the test was described originally. The full text for each record includes an overview of the test, a description of the test materials and time needed, and one or more reviews of the test.

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• PsycINFO
  Scholarly articles in psychology, plus medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, criminology, social science, business, & organizational behavior. Search Tips! 1872-present.
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  Covers the academic, research and practice literature -- including journal articles, dissertations, book chapters, books, technical reports -- from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. From the American Psychological Association.

  Subjects include:

  • Business (advertising & marketing)
  • Communication Sciences
  • Education
  • Medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

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