Editing List of tests

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The following is an alphabetized and categorized '''list of notable [[Test method|tests]]'''.

== Clinical psychology tests ==
{{further|List of diagnostic classification and rating scales used in psychiatry}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Test
! Description
! Year
|-
| [[Beck Depression Inventory]]
| Measures severity of Depression
| 1961
|-
| [[DASS (psychology)]]
| Isolate and identify aspects of emotional disturbance
| 1965
|}

== Cognitive development tests ==
{{Further|Cognitive test}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Test
! Description
! Year
|-
| [[Draw-A-Person Test]]
| Psychological projection test for children
| 1926
|-
| [[Knox Cubes]]
| Nonverbal intelligence test
| 1913
|-
| [[Modern Language Aptitude Test]]
| Foreign language  test
| {{n/a}}
|-
| [[Multiple choice]]
| Determine the best possible answer from a list.
| 1915
|-
| [[Pimsleur Language Aptitude Battery]]
| Foreign language proficiency attainment predictor.
| 1966
|-
| [[Porteus Maze Test]]
| Measures psychological planning capacity.
| 1914
|}

== Intelligence tests ==
* [[Cattell Culture Fair]]
* [[Kohs block]]
* [[Woodcock–Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities]]
* [[Multidimensional Aptitude Battery II]]
* [[Leiter International Performance Scale]]
* [[Miller Analogies Test]]
* [[Otis–Lennon School Ability Test]]
* [[Raven's Progressive Matrices]]
* [[Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales]]
* [[Triarchic theory of intelligence|Sternberg Triarchic Abilities Test]]
* [[Turing test]]
* [[Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale]]
* [[Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children]]
* [[Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence]]
* [[Wonderlic Test]]
* [[Intelligence quotient|Iq test]]
* [[Trust metric]]

== Medical tests ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Test
! Description
! Year
|-
| [[Apgar test]]
| Quickly summarizes the health of newborn children.
| 1952
|-
| [[Biopsy]]
| Cell or tissue sampling  for examination.
| ?
|-
| [[Blood test]]
| Blood sample laboratory test.
| ?
|-
| [[DNA test]]
| Genetic diagnosis of vulnerabilities to inherited diseases and more.
| ?
|-
| [[Gait Abnormality Rating Scale]]
| A videotape-based analysis of 16 facets of human gait.
| 1996
|-
| [[Glucose Tolerance Test]]
| Glucose is given and blood samples taken afterward determine how quickly it is cleared from the blood.
| 1923
|-
| [[Ishihara colour test]]
| A color perception test for red-green color deficiencies.
| 1917
|-
| [[Liver function test]]
| Groups of blood tests that give information about the state of a patient's liver
| N/A
|-
| [[Lumbar puncture]]
| Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) collection to confirm or exclude conditions
| 1891
|-
| [[Mantoux test]]
|  Tuberculosis screening tool.
| 1890
|-
| [[Pap smear]]
| Cervical screening used to detect pre-cancerous and cancerous processes in the endocervical canal.
| ?
|-
| [[RAST test]] (radioallergosorbent test)
| Blood test used to determine the substances a subject is allergic to.
| 1974
|-
| [[Uhlenhuth test]] 
| Forensic test to determine the species of a blood sample
| 1901
|-
| [[Urea Breath Test]]
| A rapid diagnostic procedure used to identify infections by Helicobacter pylori.
| ?
|-
| [[Wassermann test]] 
| An antibody test for syphilis
| ?
|}

== Self tests ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Test
! Description
! Year
|-
| [[Mirror test]]
|  Determines whether a non-human animal possesses the ability of self-recognition
| 1970
|-
| [[Sally-Anne test]]
|  Measures a person's social cognitive ability to attribute false beliefs to others.
| 1985
|}

== Statistical tests ==
* [[Ames test]]
* [[Chi-squared test]]
* [[Draize test]]
* [[Dixon's Q test]]
* [[F-test]]
* [[Fisher's exact test]]
* [[GRIM test]]
* [[Kolmogorov–Smirnov test]]
* [[Kuiper's test]]
* [[Likelihood-ratio test]]
* [[Median test]]
* [[Mann–Whitney U test]]
* [[Pearson's chi-squared test]]
* [[Rank product|Rank product test]] 
* [[Shapiro–Wilk test]]
* [[Statistical hypothesis testing]]
* [[Student's t-test]]
* [[Tukey's range test]]
* [[Tukey's test of additivity]]
* [[Welch's t test]]

== Personality tests ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Test
! Description
! Year
|-
| [[Activity vector analysis|Activity vector analysis (AVA)]]
| psychometric questionnaire designed to measure four personality factors
| 1942
|-
| [[Bem Sex-Role Inventory]]
| (Gender identification)
| 1974
|-
| [[Big Five personality traits]]
| Five broad domains or dimensions of personality that are used to describe human personality
| 1961
|-
| [[California Psychological Inventory]]
| ([[Self-report inventory]])
|
|-
| [[DISC assessment]]
| A behavior assessment tool based on the DISC theory of psychologist William Moulton Marston, which centers on four<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discprofile.com/what-is-disc/research-reliability-and-validity|title=Science behind DiSC®|website=Discprofile.com}}</ref> “primary emotions” and associated behavioral traits: dominance, influence, steadiness, and conscientiousness.
| 1928
|-
| [[Strength Deployment Inventory]]
| Written by [[Elias Porter]] to illuminate peoples values, motives, and strengths in response to good times and conflict.
| 1971
|-
| [[Edwin E. Wagner#The Hand Test|The Hand Test]]
| A projective technique that utilizes ten unbound 3.5 x 4.5 inch cards
| 1983
|-
| [[Empathizing–systemizing theory|EQSQ Test]] (Empathizing–systemizing theory)
| Suggests that people may be classified on the basis of their scores along two dimensions: empathizing (E) and systemizing (S)
| ?
|-
| [[Eysenck Personality Questionnaire]]
| Assesses the personality traits
| 1985
|-
| [[Hare Psychopathy Checklist]]
| Psychopath presence
| 1970s
|-
| [[Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument]] (HBDI)
| Thinking preferences in people
| 1982
|-
| [[HEXACO model of personality structure]] Personality Inventory
| Personality structure is a six-dimensional model of human personality
| 2004
|-
| [[Holland Codes]] (RIASEC) (Personality-occupation matching)
| A theory of careers and vocational choice based upon personality types.
| 1990s
|-
| [[Inwald Personality Inventory]]
| Personality inventory primarily used to screen applicants for high-risk positions such as police candidates.
| 1980
|-
| [[International Personality Item Pool]] (IPIP)
| A public domain collection of items for use in personality tests.
| N/A
|-
| [[Keirsey Temperament Sorter]]
| Self-assessed personality questionnaire designed to help people better understand themselves.
| ?
|-
| [[Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory]] (MMPI)
| The most widely used and researched standardized psychometric test of adult personality and psychopathology.
| 1943
|-
| [[Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory]] (MCMI)
| A psychological assessment tool intended to provide information on psychopathology
| 1969
|-
| [[Myers–Briggs Type Indicator]] (MBTI)
| A psychometric questionnaire measuring psychological preferences in how most people perceive the world and make decisions, based on [[Carl Jung]]'s four principal psychological functions of how humans experience the world – sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking.
| 1921
|-
| [[Newcastle Personality Assessor (NPA)]]
| A personality test designed to measure the test-taker's personality on five dimensions: Extroversion, Neuroticism, Conscientious, Agreeableness, and Openness.
| ?
|-
| [[Revised NEO Personality Inventory]]
| A psychological personality inventory
| 1990
|-
| [[Robin Hood Morality Test]]
| A simple psychology test
| ?
|-
| [[Rorschach inkblot test]]
| A psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both.
| 1960s
|- 
|[[Sokanu Interests, Personality, and Preferences Inventory]]
| A psychological inventory used in career counseling and employee selection
|2013
|-
|[[Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire]]
|A questionnaire to assess the adaptation of freshmen to college. Used to reduce adaptation problems and drop-outs
|1987
|-
| [[16PF|Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire or 16PF Questionnaire]] (16PF)
| A multiple-choice personality questionnaire which was developed over several decades of research by Raymond B. Cattell
| 1940s
|-
| [[Swedish Universities Scales of Personality]]
| A personality test based on the older Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP)
| ?
|-
| [[Taylor–Johnson Temperament Analysis]]
| A personality test designed to measure nine common personality traits for the assessment of individual adjustment.
| 1941
|-
| [[Temperament and Character Inventory]]
| An inventory for personality traits devised by Cloninger
| ?
|-
| [[Thematic Apperception Test]]
| A projective psychological test
| 1930s
|-
| [[Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument]]
| A psychological personality inventory
| early 1970s
|-
| [[True Colors (personality)]] Test
|  A personality profiling system created by Don Lowry
| 1979
|-
| [[Woodworth Personal Data Sheet]]
| Commonly cited as the first personality test
| WWI
|}

== Pure-mathematical tests ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Test
! Description
! Year
|-
| [[Fermat primality test]]
| A probabilistic test to determine whether a number is probable prime.
| 2001
|-
| [[Miller–Rabin primality test]]
| Determines whether a given number is prime.
| ?
|-
| [[Primality test]]
| Determines whether an input number is prime.
| ?
|}

== Skills assessment tests ==
* [[Test (student assessment)|Student assessment test]]
** [[Scantron]] test
* [[Bourdon–Wiersma test]]
* [[Graduate Management Admission Test]]
* [[Graduate Record Examination]] (GRE)
* [[GRE Physics Test]]
* [[HESI exam]]
* [[Japanese-Language Proficiency Test]]
* [[Medical College Admission Test]]
* [[SAT college entrance test]]
* [[Screen test]]

== Language tests ==
* [[IELTS]] (International English Language Testing System)
* [[International Test of English Proficiency|iTEP]] (International Test of English Proficiency)
* [[Teaching English as a Foreign Language|TEFL]] (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)
* [[TOEFL]] (Test of English as a Foreign Language)
* [[TOEIC]] (Test of English for International Communication)
* [[TSE (examination)|TSE]] (Test of Spoken English)
* [[DALF]] (Test of French Language)

== Industrial and manufacturing tests ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Test
! Description
! Year
|-
| [[Acceptance test]]
| A test conducted to determine if the requirements of a specification or contract are met.
| N/A
|-
| [[Crash test]]
| A form of destructive testing usually performed in order to ensure safe design standards in [[crashworthiness]]
| N/A
|-
| [[Moose test]]
|  Performed to determine how well a certain vehicle evades a suddenly appearing obstacle.
| 1970s
|-
| [[Nondestructive testing]] (NDT/NDA)
| Analysis techniques used in science and industry to evaluate the properties of a material, component or system without causing damage.
| N/A
|-
| [[Sanity test]]
| A basic test to quickly evaluate whether a claim or the result of a calculation can possibly be true.
| N/A
|-
| [[Smoke testing (software)|Smoke test]]
| Preliminary testing to reveal simple failures severe enough to reject a prospective software release.
| N/A
|-
| [[Software testing]]
| An investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test.
| 1979
|-
| [[Stress testing|Stress test]]
| A form of deliberately intense or thorough testing used to determine the stability of a given system or entity. 
| N/A
|-
| [[Unit test]]
| Software testing method by which individual units of source code are tested to determine whether they are fit for use.
| N/A
|}

== Laboratory (non-medical) tests ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Test
! Description
! Year
|-
| [[Marsh test]]
| Detection of [[arsenic]].
| 1836
|-
| [[DNA paternity testing|Paternity test]]
| Biological parent–child relationship.
| 1920s
|-
| [[Radiocarbon dating]]
| Aging organic material.
| 1940s
|}

== Legal tests ==
{{Main|Legal tests}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Test
! Description
! Year
|-
| [[Berne three-step test]]
| Standardize possible limitations and exceptions to exclusive rights under their respective national copyright laws.
| 1967
|-
| [[Habitual residence| Habitual residence test]]
| Standard used to determine the law which should be applied to determine a given legal dispute.
| ?
|-
| [[Caroline test|''Caroline'' test]]
| A 19th-century formulation of customary international law which said that the necessity for preemptive self-defense must be "instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation."
| ?
|}

== Miscellaneous and uncategorized tests ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Test
! Description
! Year
|-
| [[Purity test]]
| An [[Internet meme]] purported to determine the user's degree of innocence in worldly matters.
| 1980s
|-
| [[Nuclear testing]]
| Determines the effectiveness, yield, and explosive capability of nuclear weapons.
| 1945
|-
| [[Wug test]]
| Demonstrated that young children possess implicit knowledge of linguistic morphology.
| 1958
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of standardized tests in the United States]]
* {{portal-inline|Lists}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Tests|List]]
[[Category:Science-related lists|Tests]]