Welcome to the COU 6303: Techniques of Appraisal and Assessment Research Guide. In this guide, you will find library and online resources to help you with your research and course assignments. Scroll below to see the most used resources for getting started on your research. Click on the side navigation tabs on the left to see more in-depth and comprehensive resources.
Course Description
Investigates the theories, principles, and practices of psychological testing. Explores test item development, test format development, and statistical analysis. Reviews established intelligence tests, achievement tests, mood measures, and personality assessments. Examines the appropriate role of the counselor and psychological testing in the clinical use of tests and assessments in the counseling profession.
Access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments.
Articles from 45 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations.
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Encyclopedia of Counseling
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Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment
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Test Critiques
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These four collections of videos provide faculty and students with the therapeutic methods, skills and diagnoses of counseling with clients.
Contains thousands of videos, including documentaries, educational films, and news clips spanning the widest range of subject areas.
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OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1000 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 2,311,795 theses and dissertations.
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Access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments.
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Why Should I use Google Scholar?
Google Scholar includes journal and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research. You'll find works from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies and university repositories, as well as scholarly articles available anywhere across the web. Google Scholar also includes court opinions and patents.
How to set up Google Scholar So that it will retrieve articles available at the West Library:
