Measurement Instruments for Research, Education, and Clinical Practice: Instrument Collections on the Web

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) released the Directory and Repository of Educational Assessment Measures (DREAM) on MedEdPORTAL as a resource for health professions education assessments prior to 2016. Each DREAM publication includes an assessment instrument and a peer-reviewed critical analysis of the literature surrounding the use of the instrument.

Collection of 50 instruments that can be refined by who is being studied, the type of instrument, the content being assessed, and the access requirements to use the instrument.

The ADAI Library is located at the University of Washington and collects research and scientific literature on alcohol and other drug use from all relevant disciplines. Instruments can be found by name or acronym, developer, descriptors, and words in the abstract. Descriptive and psychometric information is provided, and some instruments are in the public domain and can be freely downloaded from the web. A list of all the instruments can also be browsed.

The DASS is a 42-item self report instrument designed to measure the three related negative emotional states of depression, anxiety and tension/stress. The DASS questionnaire is in the public domain, and may be downloaded from this website.

This compendium provides researchers and prevention specialists with a set of assessment tools with demonstrated reliability and validity for measuring the self-reported incidence and prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence victimization and perpetration. Although the compendium includes more than 20 scales, it is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of available measures. The information is presented to help researchers and practitioners make informed decisions when choosing scales to use in their work.

This compendium provides researchers and prevention specialists with a set of tools to assess violence-related beliefs, behaviors, and influences, as well as to evaluate programs to prevent youth violence. If you are new to the field of youth violence prevention and unfamiliar with available measures, you may find this compendium to be particularly useful. If you are an experienced researcher, this compendium may serve as a resource to identify additional measures to assess the factors associated with violence among youths.

RAND's researchers and survey experts have developed numerous health-related surveys. Available for free in the public domain, these surveys are designed for a wide range of purposes, including assessing patients' health, screening for mental health conditions, and measuring quality of care and quality of life. Many of these surveys are intended for the general population, but can be tailored to specific groups, such as the elderly, Medicaid recipients, veterans, and families with small children.

With over 20 years of experience developing, adapting, and testing self-administered scales in English and Spanish for research subjects with chronic diseases, SRMC provide these scales for you to use in your own research at no cost and without permission, thanks to funding from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR).

Made available by the University of Maryland's Sociology Department