[Review of Educational, Psychological, and Personality Tests of 1933, 1934

Abstract

Reviews the books, Educational, Psychological, and Personality Tests of 1933, 1934, and 1935 by Oscar K. Buros (1936); Educational, Psychological, and Personality Tests of 1936 by Oscar K. Buros (1937); and An Index of Periodical Literature on Testing by Earl B. South (1937). The reviewer states that in 1933 Dr. Hildreth published her extensive bibliography of psychological and educational measuring instruments containing in the neighborhood of 3,000 entries. This monumental work was a spectacular indication of the extensive activity during a third of a century in the devising of tests. One might even have ventured the opinion that probably less than a third of the total number would have served all the real needs of psychological and educational measurements. That this opinion has not been universally held is evident from the bibliographies of Dr. Buros. In the first volume listed above, there are 503 testing instruments listed, classified by subject, and supplied with alphabetical author and title indexes. The 1937 volume continues the listing with an addition of 365 more tests or a total of 868 in all. The author and title indexes include only entries in the second volume. This volume also introduces an innovation in the bibliographical tools of psychology in the form of a book review digest of books on measurements. Dr. South's volume is an invaluable addition to those of Drs. Hildreth and Buros, as well as to the literature of psychological measurements. This is a carefully selected list of 5,005 papers on testing which appeared in the periodical literature between 1921 and 1936. According to the reviewer, the bibliographies of Drs. Buros and South are noteworthy and every psychologist and educator interested in measurements is indebted and should be grateful to them. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)