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Suicide Scales.
See individual entries for details:
Suicide Risk Assessment Scale
Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center Scale
Lethality of Suicide Attempt Scale
A Suicide Screening Checklist (SSC) for Adolescents and Young Adults.
Suicide Screening Checklist for Adolescents and Young
Adults.(SSC.)
Yufit, Robert
USA:1980
The SSC is completed during and following an interview that includes major focus areas to be
evaluated. When necessary, available friends/relatives may be utilized to collect relevant data to
supplement the primary source of patient interview data.
Materials: photocopy of article.
Survey of Personal Values.(SPV.)
Gordon, Leonard V.
USA:Science Research Associates:1967
Measures the critical values that help an individual determine coping ability with everyday problems.
Used for employee screening and placement, vocational guidance and counseling. Six values are
measured: practical mindedness, achievement, variety, decisiveness, orderliness, and goal orientation.
Range: Grade 10+
Time: approx 15 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual, scoring key, question booklet.
Sweet's Technical Information Test.(STIT.)
Sweet, R.
Australia:Austalian Council for Educational Research:1975
Measures the technical knowledge of students. Used in counseling settings to assess suitability for
technical and practical occupations at trade and subprofessional levels.
Range: 13-18 years
Time: 20 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual (3 copies), test booklet (37 copies), answer sheet (17 copies), scoring key (6 copies),
related articles.
Symbol Digit Modalities Test.(SDMT.)
Smith, Aaron
Rev. edition.
USA:Western Psychological Services:1982
Measures brain damage. Used to screen and predict learning disorders and to identify children with
potential reading problems. Involves the conversion of meaningless geometric designs into written
and/or oral number responses. Responses can be written or oral.
Range: 8-75 years
Time: 90 seconds
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual, test form (22 copies).
Symond's Picture - Story Test.
Symonds, Percival M.
USA:Bureau of Publications Teachers College, Columbia Uni.:1948
A projective technique designed for the study of the personality of adolescent boys and girls. In the
picture story method a boy or girl tells stories stimulated by pictures and, according to theory, some
one or more characters in the stories will possess qualities and personality trends which correspond to
underlying wishes, impulses and attitudes of the subject.
Range: adolescent
Time: approx 60 mins
Administration: individual
Materials: Manual, 10 cards for girls, 10 cards for boys.
Symptom Checklist 90 revised.(SCL-90-R.)
Derogatis, Leonard R.
USA:National Computer Systems:1977
A 90 item self-report symptom inventory designed to primarily reflect the psychological symptom
patterns of psychiatric and medical patients. There are 9 primary symptom dimensions and 3 global
indices of distress: somatization, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety,
hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, psychotism. Global Severity Index, Positive Symptom
Distress Index, Positive Symptom Total.
Range:adolescents and adults
Time: 12-15 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual, scoring templates, checklist (28 copies), profile forms (25 copies), bibliography,
related article, backup copy of manual on bookshelf. Student Test Report available.
System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment.(SOMPA.)
Mercer, Jane R.; Lewis, June F.
USA:Psychological Corporation:1977
Assesses cognitive abilities, sensorimotor abilities, and adaptive behaviour of children. Used for
assessing children of diverse cultural backgrounds. A system of assessment which looks at the whole
child. A parent or the most knowledgeable adult responsible for the child is interviewed. Additionally,
the child takes a mental ability test, a test of perceptual maturity, a visual examination, a hearing test,
and a special test of physical dexterity.
Range: 5-11 years
Time: parent interview 60 mins, Student assessment materials 20 mins, time required for the Weschsler
and Bender-Gestalt tests.
Administration: Individual
Materials: Technical Manual, Parent Interview Kit: Manual, record form (25 copies), profile form (25
copies), 6 scoring keys; Student Assessment Kit: Manual, record form (25 copies).
Temporal Order Test [Computer File].
See: Colorada Neuropsychology Tests : Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory and Problem Solving
[Computer File].
Tennessee Self Concept Scale.(TSCS.)
Fitts, William H.
USA:Western Psychological Services:1991
Measures an individual's self concept in terms of identity, feelings and behaviour. 100 self-descriptive
statements that the subject uses to portray his/her self-picture. Form C: (counseling form) provides
scores for 14 basic scales; Form C & R (clinical and research form) provides the same 14 scores but it
also yields 15 additional scores for use in clinical and research settings.
Range: 13+ years
Time: approx 10-20 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: 1965 Manual, 1991 Manual, Questionnaire (18 copies), answer-profile sheet (24 copies), 6
score keys (2 copies of each).
Test Anxiety Inventory.
Speilberger, Charles D.
(Test Attitude Inventory (TAI).)
USA:Consulting Psychologists Press:1989
Measures individual differences in test-taking anxiety.
Range: adolescent - adult
Time: 5-10 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Student Test Report (includes copy of inventory).
Test of Adolescent Language - 2.(TOAL - 2.)
Hammill, Donald D.; Brown, Virginia L.; Larsen, Stephen C.; Wiederholt, J. Lee
USA:PRO-ED:1987
Assesses the language abilities of adolescents. Tests listening, speaking, reading, writing, spoken language, written language, vocabulary, grammar, receptive language and expressive language.
Range: 12-18 years
Time: 1-3 hours
Administration:Individual
Materials: manual, student answer booklet (50 copies), student book (10 copies), profile sheets (50 copies).
Test of Language Development - Intermediate.(TOLD-I:2.)
Hammill, Donald D.; Newcomer, Phyllis L.
2nd
edition.
USA:PRO-ED:1988
Assesses the expressive and receptive language abilities of children. Used to identify children who are
significantly below their peers in language proficiency. Also used to determine children's specific
strengths and weaknesses in language skills, to document children's progress in language as a
consequence of special intervention programs and to measure language in research studies. Consists of
6 subtests: sentence combining, vocabulary, word ordering, generals, grammatic comprehension and
melapropisms.
Range: 8.6 years-12.11 years.
Time: approx 40 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual, profile/examiner record form (50 copies).
Test of Language Development - Primary.(TOLD-P:2.)
Newcomer, Phyllis L.; Hammill, Donald D.
2nd
edition.
USA:PRO-ED:1988
Has 7 subtests that measure different components of spoken language: Picture Vocabulary, Oral
Vocabulary, Grammatical Understanding, Sentence Imitation, Grammatic Completion, Word
Articulation, and Word Discrimination.
Range: 4.0-8.11 years
Time:approx 40 mins
Administration: Individual
Materials: Manual, picture book, multicopies of Profile/Examiner Record Form.
Test of Memory and Learning.(TOMAL.)
Reynolds, Cecil R.; Bigler, Erin D.
USA:PRO-ED:1994
The 10 core and 4 supplemental subtests are designed to give information on specific and general
aspects of memory. It features composite memory scores for verbal memory, nonverbal memory,
delayed recall and a composite memory index. Supplemental composite scores include a learning
index, attention and concentration index, sequential memory index, free recall index and an associate
recall index.
Range: 5-19 years
Time: 45-75 mins
Administration: Individual
Materials: Manual, record form and administration booklet (25 copies), supplementary analysis form
(25 copies), Facial Memory picture book, Facial memory chips (15 plastic), Visual selective reminding
test board, delayed recall cue cards (deck of 24 cards).
Test of Memory and Learning : Computer Scoring Program.
Stanton, Harrison; Smith, Eric S.; Reynolds, Cecil R.; Bigler, Erin D.
(TOMAL :
Computer Scoring Program.)
IBM Version 1.0
USA:Pro-ed:1995
Designed to provide fast and accurate scoring of Tomal test results.
Materials: Manual, 5.25" disk.
Test of Written Spelling.(TWS-3.)
Larsen, Stephen C.; Hammill, Donald D.
3rd edition.
USA:PRO-ED:1994
Measures students' spelling abilities by using both words that are easily predictable by their sound and
words that are more irregular. Identifies the spelling strengths and weaknesses of students, identifies
words to be studied, guides instructional practices and measures progress
Range: 5-13 years
Time: 15-25 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual, summary response forms (50 copies).
Tests of Reading Comprehension.(TORCH.)
Mossenson, Leila; Hill, Peter; Masters, Geofferey
Australia:Australian Council for Educational Research:1987
A set of 14 untimed reading tests. They aim at assessing the extent to which readers are able to obtain
meaning from text.
Range: Test Booklet A: Years 3-7, Test Booklet B: Years 6-10
Time: approx 30 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual, Test Booklets A & B, 14 photocopy master answer sheets.
Thematic Aperception Test.(TAT.)
Murray, Henry Alexander
Australia:Australian Council for Educational Research:1973
Assesses personality through projective technique focusing on dominant drives, emotions, sentiments,
complexes, attitudes and conflicts. The subject is shown pictures one at a time and asked to make up a
story about each picture.
Range: 7+ years
Time: 120 mins in 2 sessions -1 day apart
Administration: Individual
Materials: Manual, guide to the interpretation of the thematic apperception test, 20 pictures, Bellak TAT
blanks (multiple copies).
See also: Bellak, "The TAT, CAT & SAT in clinical use" (on book shelves).
Thorndike Dimensions of Temperament.(TDOT.)
Thorndike, R. L.
USA:Psychological Corporation:1966
A self report personality inventory through which the individual describes himself with respect to ten
dimensions of temperament. In order to minimize the effect of an individual's tendency to ascribe only
socially desirable qualities to himself the inventory has been structured in a forced-choice pattern.
Range: adolescent - adult
Time: approx 35-45 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual, test booklet, answer sheet, 5 score keys (2 copies of each).
Time Questionnaire : Assessing Suicide Potential.(TQ.)
Yufit, Robert; Benzies, Bonnie
USA:Consulting Psychologists Press:1979
Semi-projective questionnaire designed to explore and to make a quantitative assessment of suicide
potential. Items cover feeling about the present, the future and the past.
Range: 18-81 years
Time: 10-15 mins
Administration: Individual
Materials:Specimen Set: manual and questionnaire.
The Token Test for Children.
DiSimoni, Frank
USA:DLM Teaching Resources:1978
Measures functional listening ability in children and identifies receptive language dysfunction. The
results can be used to indicate a need for further testing of lexicon and syntax or to rule out language
impairment in a child with reading difficulties.
Range: 3-12.5 years
Time: approx 10 mins
Administration: Individual
Materials: Manual, 20 tokens, scoring forms (50 copies).
Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking.(TTCT.)
Torrance, E. Paul
USA:Personnel Press (A division of Ginn and Company):1974
Assesses the ability to visualize and transform words, meanings and patterns. Used to identify gifted,
creative individuals.
Range: kindergarten - adult
Time: Figural- 30 mins, verbal- 45 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Norms technical manual, Manuals:- Verbal test Booklet A, Verbal Test Booklet B (2 copies),
Figural Test Booklet A (1972 revision), Figural Test Booklet B (1974 revision)(2 copies); Verbal test
booklet A and Booklet B, Figural Test booklet A and Booklet B, record sheet - verbal, record sheet -
figural,class record sheet, 1 picture.
Toward Affective Development.(TAD.)
Dupont, Henry; Gardner, Ivitta Sue; Brody, David S.
USA:American Guidance Service:1974
An activity centered program designed to stimulate psychological and affective development. The
program is divided into 5 sections:"Reaching in & reaching out" "Your feelings and mine", "Working
together", "Me: Today and Tomorrrow", "Feeling, thinking, doing". It consists 0f 191 lessons.
Range: 8-12 years
Time: time for each lesson is given in manual
Administration: group
Materials: 1 complete kit (see pp ix-xi of the manual for list of contents).
Tower of Hanoi Puzzle.
Simon, Herbert A.1975
The Tower of Hanoi Puzzle is used to show that, even in simple
problem solving environments, numerous distinct solution strategies are available, and different
subjects may learn different strategies.
Administration: Individual
Materials: 2 puzzles each with 3 disks, 4 journal articles
See also:Colorada Neuropsychology Tests : Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory and Problem Solving
[Computer File].
Tower of Hanoi Test [Computer File].
See:Colorada Neuropsychology Tests : Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory and Problem Solving
[Computer File].
Tower of London [Computer File].
see: Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery [Computer File].
Tower of London Test [Computer File].
Used to investigate problem solving in subjects with damage to the frontal lobes.
See: Colorada Neuropsychology Tests : Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory and Problem Solving
[Computer File].
Tower of Toronto Test [Computer File].
See: Colorada Neuropsychology Tests : Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory and Problem Solving
[Computer File].
Trail Making Test (Adult Version).(TMT.)
Reitan, Ralph M.
USA:Reitan Neuropsychology Laboratory:1992
An easily administered test of visual conceptual and visuomotor tracking. Requires immediate
recognition of the symbolic significance of numbers and letters, ability to scan the page continuously to
identify the next number or letter in sequence, flexibility in integrating the numerical and alphabetical
series and completion of these requirements under the pressure of time. A sound measure of general
brain functions.
Range: 15+ years
Materials: Manual, Part A (100 copies), Part B (100 copies).
Trail Making Test (Children's Version).(TMT.)
Reitan, Ralph M.
USA:Reitan Neuropsychology Laboratory:1992
An easily administered test of visual conceptual and visuomotor tracking. Requires immediate
recognition of the symbolic significance of numbers and letters, ability to scan the page continuously to
identify the next number or letter in sequence, flexibility in integrating the numerical and alphabetical
series and completion of these requirements under the pressure of time. A sound measure of general
brain functions.
Range: 9-14 years
Materials: Manual, Part A (100 copies), Part B (100 copies), journal article (missing).
University Residence Environment Scale.(URES.)
Moos, Rudolf H.; Gerst Marvin S.
USA:Consulting Psychologists Press:1974
Assesses the social environment of university residence halls and dormitories. Measures 10 dimensions:
involvement, emotional support, independence, traditional social orientation, competition, academic
achievement, intellectuality, order and organization, student influence, and innovation.
Range: adolescent-adult
Administration: Group
Materials: see Social Climate Scales.
Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scales.
Sparrow, Sara S.; Balla, David A.; Cicchetti, Dominic V.
USA:American Guidance Service:1984
A complete revision and expansion of the vineland social maturity scale, designed to measure personal
and social sufficiency in individuals from birth to adulthood. The survey and expanded forms use a
semi-structured interview technique, obtaining responses from a parent or care-giver familiar with the
individual's typical day-to-day behaviour. Measures adaptive behaviour in communication, daily living
skills, socialization, motor skills and maladaptive behaviour.
Range: child, adolescent
Time: Survey form 20-60 mins, expanded form 60-90 mins, classroom edition 20 mins.
Administration: Individual
Materials:Survey Form:- Manual (2 copies), record booklet, report to parents; Expanded Form:-
Manual, Item booklet, report to parents, program planning report, score summary and profile booklet.
Student Test Reports available.
Visual and Digit Span Tests [Computer File].
See: Colorada Neuropsychology Tests : Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory and Problem Solving
[Computer File].
Visual Form Discrimination.
Benton, Arthur L.; Hamsher, K. deS; Varney, N. R.; Spreen, O.
USA:Oxford University Press:1983
This standardised measure of the ability to discriminate between complex visual configurations
provides comparative data on patients with brain disease. Composed of 16 items ranging in levels of
difficulty.
Range: adult
Time: varies
Administration: Individual
Materials: Book of line drawings, record form (100 copies). Use Benton "Contributions to
Neuropsychological Assessment" as the manual.
The Visual Object and Space Perception Battery.(VOSP.)
Warrington, Elizabeth; James, Merle
UK:Thames Valley Test Company:1991
Consists of eight tests each designed to assess a particular aspect of object or space perception while
minimizing the involvement of other cognitive skills. The Vosp will enable an assessor to compare the
scores of a subject with those of a normal control sample and those obtained by patients with right and
left cerebral lesions.
Range: adult
Time: varies
Administration: Individual
Materials: User kit: manual, Test 1 book, tests 2-4 book, tests 5-8 book, scoring sheet (25 copies).
Visual Search and Attention Test.(VSAT.)
Trenerry, Max R.; Crosson, Bruce; DeBoe, James; Leber, William R.
USA:Psychological Assessment Resources:1990
The VSAT is a norm - referenced measure of an individual's ability to scan accurately and sustain
attention on each of four different visual cancellation tasks.
Range: 18+ years
Time: 6 mins
Administration: Individual
Materials: Manual, Test Booklet.
Vocational Preference Inventory.(VPI.)1985 edition
Holland, John L.
USA:Psychological Assessment Resources:1985
A personality - interest inventory comprised entirely of occupational titles. Scored for 11 scales:
Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional, Self-control, Masculinity-Feminity,
Status, Infrequency, Acquience. Useful for assessing the personality types and for the investigation of a
theory of careers.
Range: 14+ years
Time: 15-30 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual (2 copies), scoring key (2 copies), test booklet (2 copies), profile and answer sheet (2
copies).
WAIS-R as a Neuropsychological Instrument.(WAIS-R NI.)
Kaplan, Edith; Fein, Deborah; Morris, Robin; Delis, Dean C.
USA:HBJ:1991
The WAIS-R NI may be used as an alternative method of interpreting subtest results when assessing
adults witha known or suspected brain dysfunction. Provides a qualitative analysis of subtest results.
Range: 16-74 years
Materials: Kit - includes manual, record form, response booklet, stimulus booklet, sentence
arrangement booklet, 3 object assembly puzzles, object asssembly layout shield, board, 3 x blocks.
Ward Atmosphere Scale.(WAS.)
Moos, Rudolf H.
USA:Consulting Psyhologists Press:1974
Assesses the social environments of hospital based psychiatric treatment programs. Used to evaluate
organizational effectiveness.
Range: adolescent-adult
Time: approx 20 mins
Administration:Individual or group.
Watson - Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal.
Watson, Goodwin; Glaser, Edward M.
USA:Psychological Corporation:1980
Assesses critical thinking abilities. Used for evaluation of gifted and talented individuals. Used to select
candidates for positions where analytic reasoning is an important part of the job.
Range:15+ years
Time: approx 50 mins.
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual (2 copies), Form A question booklet (17 copies), score key (4 copies), answer sheet
(2 copies).
Ways of Coping Questionnaire.
Lazarus, Richard S.; Folkman Susan
USA:1984
Test to assess coping in a reconstructed recent stressful encounter, through what they thought, felt and
did.
Time: approx 10 mins
Administration: Individual
Materials: 67 item questionnaire, 66 item adapted questionnaire (Macquarie Student), Reference to the
questionnaire in the book Lazarus, R. S. & Folkman, S. (1984) "Stress, Appraisal and Coping" New
York: Springer.