Evaluating Existing Measures

Evaluating Existing Measures
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Evaluating Existing Measures
Mental measurement Yearbook (MMY) is a database that contains descriptive information and reviews that are written by worldwide experts (Baumgartner and Burns 2013). To be part of MMY, the test should be available and published in English. The criteria include career records, intelligence, and psychological tests.
The original measurement approach is severity and symptoms which include conceptualizing the condition using psychiatric distress, checklist-90, questionnaires and the outcome form from the medical analysis. This approach helped answer the questions o the well being of the patient as well as how they respond to the effects of anxiety. On the other hand, Mental Measurement Yearbook has been proven successful through allowing the user to find what is being measured and thereby provide bibliographical information to guarantee that the tests are valid and reliable (Tuckman and Harper 2012). The MMY approach has been proven success by over 3,000 testing instruments (O’Brien and McCay-Peet 2017), and therefore I would make changes in the original method to try incorporating it with one that has been proven to give results. This is to ensure that the results recorded have some merit, as a result reliable.
The Mental Measurement Yearbook has both advantages and disadvantages. Some of the benefits are:
Complete access to the search engines
The information provided can be found in a concise record
Full access to the approach requires Mental Measurement Yearbook citation
However, the limitations inherited by the method are:
Probability of having the same result for a single test which becomes confusing
Access to MMY becomes difficult for Test in Pint users who have to use a custom link which leads to opening new information which takes them farther from their current search
Some information like population was reported not available in the search records of this approach.

References
Baumgartner, J. N., & Burns, J. K. (2013). Measuring social inclusion—a key outcome in global mental health. International journal of epidemiology, 43(2), 354-364.
O’Brien, H. L., & McCay-Peet, L. (2017, March). Asking Good Questions: Questionnaire Design and Analysis in Interactive Information Retrieval Research. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp. 27-36). ACM.
Tuckman, B. W., & Harper, B. E. (2012). Conducting educational research. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.