Some 30 compendia of evaluation measures now exist to supplement the Buro's Mental Measurements Yearbooks. This article gives bibliographic and descriptive information about the compendia, in order that evaluators can gain access to a wide range of instruments before deciding whether to construct their own. (Author)

Most methods of personality scale construction have clear statistical disadvantages. A hybrid method (Darlington and Bishop, 1966) was found to increase scale validity more than any other method, with large item pools. A simple modification of the Darlington-Bishop method (algebraically and conceptually similar to ridge regression, but…

A modified iterative factor analytic method was applied to item responses of 346 male students in four community colleges in order to construct three experimental scales for the measure of motivation. A fourth scale, which appears to be a measure of goal-deficiency, was also developed. The four scales--tentatively identified as Intrinsic…