Top 5 Reasons Graduate Students Should Be Using The Mental Measurements Yearbook
Raul Palacios
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12/03/2020
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Buros Center for Testing Graduate Assistant, Raul Palacios, explains his favorite reasons for using the Mental Measurements Yearbook. His thoughts are especially useful for other graduate students.
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- [00:00:05.520]Hi, everybody. This is Raul from the Buros Center for Testing
- [00:00:08.490]and I'm here to talk to you today about the top five reasons you should be using
- [00:00:12.690]the Mental Measurements Yearbook for your graduate training. You know,
- [00:00:15.780]it's a funny thing.
- [00:00:16.800]I do a ton of conferences and when I go there and I talk to other graduate
- [00:00:20.190]students, they have 1.)
- [00:00:22.410]no clue what Buros Center is even about. And 2.)
- [00:00:26.100]they don't know how to use the Mental Measurements Yearbook
- [00:00:27.810]to get the most out of their graduate training. So here it is,
- [00:00:31.020]let's start with number one.
- [00:00:33.120]The first reason you should be using the Mental Measurements Yearbook is due to
- [00:00:35.940]its longevity.
- [00:00:37.140]Did you know that the Buros Center for Testing has been around since 1938?
- [00:00:41.130]It all started with Oscar K. Buros in Highland Park, New Jersey.
- [00:00:44.430]Over the past 80 years,
- [00:00:46.110]we've produced over twenty Mental Measurements Yearbooks with the 21st edition
- [00:00:50.070]scheduled to be released later this year. What does this mean for you?
- [00:00:53.790]It means that there's a ton of valuable content and reviews that you can use
- [00:00:57.360]related to assessments.
- [00:00:58.980]The second reason you should be using the MMY is because it doesn't repeat
- [00:01:02.310]itself. Each Mental Measurements Yearbook
- [00:01:04.680]produces new content based off of what's coming out from the test
- [00:01:07.770]publishers. And that can be for a lot of different reasons.
- [00:01:10.410]Sometimes test publishers update an edition of a really popular test,
- [00:01:14.130]or maybe they come up with something completely new or in some cases for a really
- [00:01:17.610]popular
- [00:01:18.030]test that they don't want to put all their investment into recreating that new
- [00:01:21.090]test they'll update their norms. And in special cases, we'll look at those.
- [00:01:25.590]But again, none of the Mental Measurements Yearbooks repeat themselves.
- [00:01:28.410]It's always gonna be new content per Mental Measurements Yearbook.
- [00:01:32.190]The third reason you should be using the MMY is due to our easy online access.
- [00:01:36.840]You may not know this but many universities already subscribe to our databases
- [00:01:40.410]via Ovid and EBSCO.
- [00:01:42.510]What this means for you is that you have access to thousands of reviews and test
- [00:01:46.530]descriptions online at the simple click of a button.
- [00:01:50.010]But if this isn't the case for you
- [00:01:51.480]then you can visit our online website at buros.org or talk to your university
- [00:01:56.880]librarian and tell them that you want your MMY.
- [00:02:00.210]Then you can have your university librarian contact us at the Buros Center for
- [00:02:03.270]Testing for pricing options.
- [00:02:06.300]The fourth reason you should be using the MMY is because it can help you with
- [00:02:09.180]your class assignments.
- [00:02:10.740]Think back to high school or undergrad. Were you ever one of those kids that used
- [00:02:14.110]Cliff's Notes or SparkNotes to help you with your English assignments? Well the MMY
- [00:02:18.330]can be applied the same way. Using the Mental Measurements Yearbook
- [00:02:22.770]you have access to test descriptions
- [00:02:24.450]and psychometric properties that can help you with courses related to
- [00:02:27.090]measurement and to assessment.
- [00:02:30.390]My fifth reason for using the MMY as a graduate student is that it can help you
- [00:02:34.080]with major projects like your dissertation, your master's thesis,
- [00:02:37.260]or maybe even your comprehensive exams if you have to take those.
- [00:02:40.620]We all know that this time in our lives can be incredibly stressful and
- [00:02:44.190]overwhelming. If you have to design a study for your dissertation, let's say,
- [00:02:48.600]and you don't know which test to use
- [00:02:50.430]you can use the MMY to sort through all of your options before you make that
- [00:02:53.670]massive commitment, that's going to really dictate your life
- [00:02:56.640]and what are you gonna be doing for the next few months, if not years?
- [00:03:01.060]Hopefully that's not the case for you,
- [00:03:02.650]but the MMY can help you save some time since we've already have done all the
- [00:03:06.280]work for you. And there you have it.
- [00:03:09.580]Those are my top five reasons for using the MMY to support your graduate
- [00:03:12.910]training. Let's do a small recap. The first reason was due to its longevity.
- [00:03:17.830]The second reason is that the MMY is continuously reviewed across its series.
- [00:03:22.600]The third reason was easy online access.
- [00:03:26.350]The fourth reason was that it can help you with your coursework during your
- [00:03:29.470]graduate training.
- [00:03:30.790]And the fifth reason, and one that's really near and dear to me, is that it can
- [00:03:33.940]help you with those big projects, like a research project or your dissertation,
- [00:03:37.660]or maybe your master's thesis.
- [00:03:39.790]Did you find any of the top five reasons that I gave helpful? If so,
- [00:03:43.030]let us know. After you're done watching this video,
- [00:03:45.730]I highly recommend that you go to a university library provider to see if you
- [00:03:49.300]have access to our MMY databases online. If so, great. If not,
- [00:03:54.100]don't forget to tell your librarian that you want your MMY. From there,
- [00:03:57.380]they can contact us for pricing points.
- [00:04:00.310]I hope you found this video helpful. At the Buros Center for Testing
- [00:04:03.070]we take a lot of pride in the work we do, and we want to make this easy for you.
- [00:04:06.700]You shouldn't make graduate school harder than it already has to be.
- [00:04:09.880]So let us help you along the way. Thanks for watching
- [00:04:12.730]and don't forget to contact us
- [00:04:13.900]if you have any questions. You can find us at buros.org.
- [00:04:18.610]See you later.
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