Research and Course Guides: Survey Research: Info about Your Topics

Terminology for Surveys

Surveys
Evaluation Methods
Community Surveys
Graduate Surveys
Mail Surveys
National Surveys
Occupational Surveys
Online Surveys
Parent Surveys
School Surveys
State Surveys
Statistical Surveys
Student Surveys
Teacher Surveys
Telephone Surveys
Television Surveys
Attitude Measures+
Biographical Inventories
Comparative Analysis+
Data Collection+
Educational Assessment+
Information Utilization+
Interviews+
Measures (Individuals)+
Opinions+
Public Opinion
Questionnaires
Response Rates (Questionnaires)   Sample Size
Sampling+
Semi Structured Interviews
Structured Interviews
Likert Scales

Search for Tests

ERIC This link opens in a new window
This is THE essential tool for research in education, but it also includes a lot about work, management, and adult learning and adjustment. For terms to use for :"surveys," use the thesaurus. There are tons of them, for example:
including specific types of surveys: Community Surveys, Graduate Surveys, Mail Surveys, National Surveys, Ocupational Surveys :as well as terms for related types of research methodologies Attitude Measures, Biographical Inventories, Educational Assessment, Interviews.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Looking for survey research? Search for your topic, along with these terms:
- attitude measures
- attitude measurements
- implicit attitudes
- explicit attitudes
- likert scales
- preference measures
Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
Emerald contains peer-reviewed articles from 175 management journals, and it is especially strong in management topics such as human resource management, operations management, and library and information management.Research reported in Emerald are strongly pragmatic and applicable to real life.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Includes resources in the fields of sociology and related subject areas.
Education Source This link opens in a new window
Covers a wide range of education topics from early childhood to higher ed as well as educational specialties like adult education, multilingual education, and more. Includes peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, books, and more.
Mental Measurements Yearbook & Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
Mental Measurements Yearbook describes and critically analyzes of more than 2000 commercially available standardized English-language tests: educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement, and intelligence. Evaluates tests for validity, reliability, and ease of testing. No full-text tests are included. Tests in Print (TIP) is a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests currently in print in the English language.

Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences
Helen Hough, from the University of Texas, Arlington, developed this database of tests, inventories, and measures included in compilation volumes (books of tests). For more information about how to search in this database, check out my blog post Tests & Measures in the Social Sciences

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