The research had as objective to evaluate personality tests in which it relates to the presence or absence of information in the respective manuals. Twenty two manuals of tests had been consulted with the objective of verifying if they had the following information: name of the author, publisher and date of the manual publication in Portuguese, the construct, publication areas, shape and number of the items, support, correction, changing of punctuation, used scales, application time, supplied documentation and used bibliography. The results have indicated that the information about the author and publisher were written in all the tests and that ten of the consulted instruments have presented all the information analyzed in its respective manuals.
psychological tests; manual of tests; psychological evaluation
