What is a kit?
 A kit is a collection, a system of tools, or a battery of tests that assess a wide range of abilities or various aspects of a single ability.
Typically, each sub-test consists of a "package" of stimuli, such as objects, activities, drawings, word combinations, tasks, and more Examples of kits: - Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS): A kit consisting of 15 sub-tests, each measuring a specific aspect of intelligence, such as abstract thinking, memory, self-perception, categorization, etc.
- Birmingham Object Recognition Battery (BORB): A kit that assesses various components and stages of a single ability—visual perception.
What is a questionnaire?
 - A collection of items that examines various aspects of a theoretical concept or variable.
- A loneliness questionnaire, for example, would assess various aspects related to loneliness through questions and statements.
- The assessment targets a defined population based on gender, age, occupation, family status, socioeconomic status, and more.
- A questionnaire can include statements, a scale continuum (closed questionnaires), open-ended questions (more suitable for qualitative research), and more.
- There are also tests that are not questionnaires but rather a series of computerized tasks and exercises.
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You have various sources for locating questionnaires and research tools used in Master's Theses, Doctoral Dissertations, and Peer-Reviewed Articles published in Israel and abroad. The sources are regularly updated, ensuring you find questionnaires and research tools from innovative and leading studies: Questionnaires and Research Instruments in Psychology
The collection includes records of questionnaires and research instruments that appeared in theses written in the Department of Psychology at Bar-Ilan University, from June 2025 onward. The collection continues an Excel file that documents questionnaires and research instruments used in MA theses since the 1990s and in doctoral dissertations since 2017. The file available on the website of the Library and Information Division and on the Psychology Library subsite and is updated through December 2025. As of January 2026, the questionnaires are presented among the digital collections on the Library and Information Division website, on the Questionnaires and Research Instruments in Psychology. When a new thesis includes a questionnaire that has already been documented in the Excel file, the questionnaire record in the catalog includes a reference to the relevant row in the file, providing additional information on its appearances in theses. The collection is regularly updated as new theses are ingested, and questionnaires are cataloged only if they appear in the appendix of the thesis. Each record includes links to the electronic copies of the theses in which the questionnaire or research instrument was used. For assistance, please contact the Psychology Library at: Psychology.Library@biu.ac.il The File of the Psychology Department for Questionnaires and Research Tools
The file refers to questionnaires and tests that have been used in master's theses written in the Psychology Department at Bar-Ilan University since the mid-1990s, as well as doctoral dissertations written in the department from 2017 to the present. The file has been under the supervision and professional management of the Psychology Library only since 2014, and it is updated on the website whenever new theses with questionnaires and tests arrive at the library. Questionnaires are updated in the file only if they appear in the appendices of the theses.
For your information, the Excel file is the only source where you can locate questionnaires used in master's and doctoral works written in the Psychology Department from 2018 to the present.
For your convenience, since the file lists questionnaires and tests found in works written by master's and doctoral students in the Psychology Department at Bar-Ilan, and since all works have been cataloged in the library, we note in the last column describing each questionnaire the shelf numbers of all master's and doctoral works that have used the questionnaire and are located in the library. If the thesis also exists in electronic format, and there is access to it in the PRIMO catalog, a note appears in the column. The questionnaires and research instruments in the Excel file were updated up until December 2025, and starting January 2026 the questionnaires will be catalogued in PRIMO, and will also be displayed on the digital collections page of The Libraries and Information Division website.
For the time being, the collection is under construction, and once we've uploaded it to the The Libraries and Information Division website, we will provide detailed information. For assistance in locating questionnaires and tests in the Excel file, you can contact: Henrietta Szold Institute (The National Institute for Research in the Behavioral Sciences)
In the database, you will find bibliographic information on questionnaires and original research tools in Hebrew, or translated and adapted from English, published in studies and theses by Israeli researchers in education, psychology, and social sciences, both in Israel and abroad. Each entry includes a detailed description of the research tool, including the name of the tool in Hebrew and English, the name of the author of the Hebrew version, the names of the authors of the original tool in English, an abbreviation of the original tool's name, bibliographic details of the original tool, reliability and validity values, a summary describing the objectives and variables of the tool, the target population it assesses, the structure of the questions, and more. Additionally, each entry includes the titles of the Master's and Doctoral theses that utilized the questionnaire or research tool described, along with a link to their abstracts in the database.
To search in the 'Research Tools' section, visit the website of the Libraries and Information Division, click on 'Catalogs and Electronic Resources' in the top menu, and then click on 'Databases.' In the list of databases, click on the letter ‘מ’, and choose the link for 'מכון סאלד ראה מאגרי המידע של מכון הנרייטה סאלד.' After entering the database (using the required permissions), select the 'כלי מחקר' section. Please note that the questionnaires used in Master's and Doctoral theses in the Psychology Department at Bar-Ilan University are updated in the Szold Institute's research tools database only up to 2018. Information on the questionnaires used in theses from 2018 onward can be found in the Excel file of questionnaires and research tools that the Psychology Department is currently developing. The APA PsycTESTS Database
The database is one of the seven components of the online APA-PsycNET database, containing about 75,000 original questionnaires and research tools in English related to psychology, psychiatry, and various fields in the social sciences authored by a range of researchers worldwide. In the records, you will find information about the target audience of the respondents, the age of the respondents, the process of conducting the assessment, the validity and reliability of the questionnaire or research tool, the language in which the questionnaire or research tool was written, information about the research areas or the fields of their writer, research tools and more. Additionally, each record includes a link to the bibliographic source that was first used with the questionnaire or research tool, and most importantly – the link labeled "Test." Click on the "Test" link to view the complete questionnaire or research tool. To search in the APA-PsycTESTS database, visit the Libraries and Information Division website, click on 'Catalogs and Electronic Resources' in the top menu, and then click on 'Databases.' In the list of databases, click on the letter A, and select APA PsycNET. From the menu that appears on the opening screen of the database, choose BROWSE, and then click on TESTS & MEASURES or PsycTESTS Keren Shalem Foundation
The research tools presented on this page are from the foundation of the Keren Shalem research database, focusing on promoting the quality of life for individuals with intellectual disabilities (mental retardation) and improving the lifestyle of their relatives. The Myers JDC Brookdale Institute Research Tools Database
The database contains questionnaires and research tools that assist in conducting interviews, performing observations, and planning surveys. These questionnaires and research tools have been in use by the institute since 2010. In the database, you can search for a complete questionnaire or a specific section of a questionnaire. Additionally, for each research tool, you will find bibliographic information and methodological background, as well as options to download, view, save, and use the tool. Access to the database is free, but prior registration is required. Please note that for any questionnaire or research tool with validity, information regarding validity and reliability is available in the catalog entry for the research tool. For further inquiries about validity and reliability or any other issues related to the questionnaires available at the institute, please contact the institute directly. |
