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Peer reviewedPrediger, Dale J. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1972
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Interest Inventories
Peer reviewedPrediger, Dale J.; Ferguson, Richard L. – NASSP Bulletin, 1982
Career guidance testing should clarify options for career exploration, claim the authors. They suggest three criteria for tests used in career counseling, note recent applications of the criteria in commercially available tests, and advocate use of the "Counselor's Guide to Vocational Guidance Instruments" by guidance personnel seeking suitable…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Download full textPrediger, Dale J.; And Others – 1967
Data from over 1,200 correlations reported in 38 studies concerning validity of aptitude and achievement predictors of success in high school vocational programs are summarized. Predictors investigated were (1) verbal intelligence, (2) nonverbal intelligence and abstract reasoning, (3) arithmetic reasoning, (4) spatial aptitude, (5) mechanical…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Correlation, High School Students
Vansickle, Timothy R.; Prediger, Dale J. – 1990
A procedure for using the interest scores of occupational group members to locate (map) occupations on Holland's (1969, 1971) hexagon is described. The procedure locates occupations throughout the hexagon--not just at six points. Score profiles for Holland's six types were obtained from administration of the Unisex Edition of the ACT Interest…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Congruence (Psychology), Education Work Relationship, Higher Education
Prediger, Dale J.; Brandt, William E. – 1990
A project was conducted to determine whether vocational interest and ability measures can help high school students identify vocational education programs in which they will experience satisfaction and success. Six Career Planning Program (CPP) interest measures and 15 ability measures were administered to 2,101 seniors in 19 area…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Choice, High School Seniors, High Schools
Prediger, Dale J. – 1971
Information from tests, when considered in the context of decision theory, can play an important role in vocational development. This role is primarily one of stimulating and facilitating exploratory behavior. Objective procedures for converting test data into counseling information are discussed and illustrated with special attention being given…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Computer Oriented Programs, Decision Making
Prediger, Dale J. – 1971
General objectives were to develop and implement computer-based procedures for obtaining validated data on the characteristics of vocational school students and to convert this data into counseling information. Two types of data-information conversion procedures were field-tested: similarity scores based on discriminant analysis, and success…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Cluster Grouping, Computer Programs
