Common tests evaluated by Buros

This is a topic I have covered before (here), but there is always more to say! I thought I would create a list of tests which are commonly used in Aotearoa, and have been evaluated by the Buros Center for Testing, at the University of Nevada (Thorndike, 1999).

The tests I have listed are those that my students have said they had previously used with clients when they began the "Assessment Tools" paper with me. The number - 5th etc - stands for the volume, and MMY stands for Mental Measurements Yearbook. The list is as follows (Buros Center for Testing, 2024):

• 16PF (Like MBTI)
  Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, 9th MMY
  Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, Fifth Edition, 12th MMY
• MBTI
  Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Step II (Form Q), 15th MMY
  Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, 10th MMY
  Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, 9th MMY
  Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Form M, 14th MMY
  Myers-Briggs Type Indicator¨ Step III, 20th MMY
• Holland
  Self-Directed Search--Second Australian Edition, 15th MMY
  Self-Directed Search, 4th Edition [Forms R, E, and CP], 13th MMY
  Self-Directed Search, 4th Edition [Forms R, E, and CP], 14th MMY
  Self-Directed Search, 5th Edition [Form R], 20th MMY
• DiSC
  DiSC Classic, 16th MMY
  DiSC Indra, 16th MMY
• HBDI
  Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument [Revised], 14th MMY
  Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument, 11th MMY
• Schein's Career Anchors
  Career Anchors: Discovering Your Real Values, Revised Edition, 13th MMY
• Krumboltz's Career Beliefs
  Career Beliefs Inventory, 12th MMY
• Knowdell's Career Values Cards
  Career Values Card Sort, 13th MMY

If you already have a US Open Library account, you can review past Buros volumes here held at the Internet Archive for an hour at a time. The search in the left-hand sidebar allows us to find the tests we seek quite quickly: much faster than trawling through the book!

If you haven't yet opened an Open Library account, register here. This online service is a superb catalogue for finding texts long out of print, and this links seamlessly with the Internet Archive, which often stores the volumes.

This is part one of a two part article. In part 2, coming in a month or so, I will list inventories linked to O*Net and to other values tests. 

Sam

References:

Buros Center for Testing (2024). Tests reviewed in The Mental Measurements Yearbook series. https://buros.org/tests-reviewed-mental-measurements-yearbook-series

Thorndike, R. M. (1999). Book Review: Conoley, JC, & Impara, JC (Eds.). (1995). The Twelfth Mental Measurements Yearbook. Lincoln, NB: The Buros Institute of Mental Measurements. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 17(1), 50-55. https://doi.org/10.1177/073428299901700105