Scales of the Career Development Inventory correlated significantly with certainty of career goals for college students but not with the incorporation score. (Author)

Studies the application of the monotonic criterion, i.e., career development proceeds in a continuous pattern. Systematic increases in scores on the Career Development Inventory are shown by high school students, but not by college students. Findings and related theory support discontinuity of career development process after high school. (DOW)

A study was designed to investigate the validity and reliability of the adult Career Concerns Inventory, which assesses career concerns of adults of any age and occupation. Subjects, 4 male and 165 female students (ages 23 to 62) enrolled in the graduate nursing program at a southern university, were administered the adult Career Concerns…

The reliability, validity, and utility of various measures of career development as they are used with postsecondary deaf students were investigated. Career development was defined as the students' knowledge about various career areas, and secondly, the quality of the students' present career decision. Four commercially available measures of…

As part of a larger program of a consortium of six rural Oregon counties (SIXCO), a study was conducted to select instruments which provided a measure of career decision-making skills and to utilize these instruments on populations of students who received varying types of guidance processes in their school programs. Of the twenty-nine instruments…

The report analyzes the values of the Career Development Inventory (CDI) as a means of assessing the vocational maturity of the 44 students in the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Employer-Based Career Education (AEL/EBCE) program. The test instrument measures attitudinal and cognitive skills which correspond with program goals, and was…