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Publication Date: 1977
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The Relative Influence of the Vocational Card Sort, the Self-Directed Search, and the Vocational Exploration and Insight Kit on High School Girls.
Takai, Ricky; Holland, John L.
A new treatment, the Vocational Exploration and Insight Kit (VEIK), was developed to increase the number and variety of vocational options a person considers, to increase the variety of information-seeking activity, and to increase the satisfaction a person has with his or her current vocational aspiration. The VEIK is a 15-step self-administered treatment. A person begins with a revised Vocational Card Sort (VCS), uses the Self Directed Search (SDS) and its interpretative booklet, and fills out an Action Plan designed to stimulate vocational exploration activity. The effects of VEIK were evaluated in a one-factor, three-level experiment in which 252 high school girls were randomly assigned to the VEIK, the VCS, or the SDS. The multi-variate test was significant, but the individual components of VEIK--the VCS and the SDS--equaled or exceeded the VEIK in their exploratory effects. These outcomes are ambiguous, but they are consistent with earlier experiements which indicate that different vocational treatments have similar rather than divergent effects. (Author)
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