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The Relationship between Career Maturity Test Scores and Appropriateness of Career Choices: A Replication.
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Westbrook, Bert W.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1990
Attempted to replicate study determining relationship between appropriateness of career choices and career maturity test scores in rural ninth grade students (N=112) using Goal Selection scale of Career Maturity Inventory Competence Test and American College Testing Program Career Planning Program. Found two career maturity measures correlated…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Career Choice, Correlation, Grade 9
The Relationship Between Vocational Maturity and Appropriateness of Vocational Choices of Ninth-Grade Pupils
Westbrook, Bert W. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1976
The purpose of this study was to determine whether ninth-grade pupils making appropriate vocational choices attained higher scores on measures of vocational maturity than pupils making inappropriate vocational choices. Analyses of the results showed that the group making appropriate vocational choices attained significantly higher scores than the…
Descriptors: Career Choice, High School Students, Measurement Techniques, Rating Scales
Career Assessment and the Cognitive Vocational Maturity Test.
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Westbrook, Bert W.; And Others – Journal of Career Assessment, 1996
The Cognitive Vocational Maturity Test-Duties subtest was completed by 180 12th graders and 172 11th graders (who were retested in 12th grade). Their teachers rated appropriateness of 11th graders' career choices. Test scores correlated significantly with teacher ratings, grade point average, and planned educational level, but not with…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Grade 11, Grade 12, High Schools
Career Maturity in Grade 9: Can Students Who Make Appropriate Career Choices for Others also Make Appropriate Career Choices for Themselves?
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Westbrook, Bert W.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1988
Hypothesized that individuals who can make appropriate career choices for others can make appropriate career choices for themselves. Results from 365 ninth-graders who completed Goal Selection subtest of Career Maturity Inventory Competence Test and Differential Aptitude Test using the Career Planning Program showed no such relationship among…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Career Choice, Grade 9, High School Freshmen
The Relationship between Career Choice Attitudes and Career Choice Competencies of Ninth-Grade Pupils
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Westbrook, Bert W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
This paper presents the results of a study designed to determine whether or not Career Choice Attitudes and Career Choice Competencies are interrelated as hypothesized in the Crites' (1965, 1973a) model of career maturity. Resulting correlations appear to be mostly consistent with the model of career maturity. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing
Measuring Career Indecision among College Students: Toward a Valid Approach for Counseling Practitioners and Researchers.
Rogers, Weaver B., Jr.; Westbrook, Bert W. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1983
Used a modified multitrait-multimethod matrix approach to examine the construct validity of the Career Decision Scale for 175 male college students. The results of the investigation provided evidence supporting the construct validity of the Career Decision Scale. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Cognitive Ability, College Students, Counseling Techniques
Criterion-Related and Construct Validity of the Career Maturity Inventory Competence Test with Ninth-Grade Pupils
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Westbrook, Bert W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
This study examines the criterion-related and construct validity of the Career Maturity Inventory Competence Test, administered to 260 ninth-grade pupils. Results show the Competence Test is more highly correlated with the Cognitive Vocational Maturity Test than it is with the Attitude Scale. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Planning, Criterion Referenced Tests
Career Maturity of Ninth Grade Pupils: Real or Imaginary?
Westbrook, Bert W.; Cutts, Catherine C. – 1978
The purpose of this study was to investigate the construct validity of the Career Maturity Inventory with ninth grade pupils. To demonstrate the construct validity it must be shown that the Career Maturity Inventory correlates highly with other variables with which it should theoretically correlate, and that it does not correlate with variables…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Planning
The Validity of Career Maturity Attitude Measures among Black and White High School Students.
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Westbrook, Bert W.; Sanford, Eleanor E. – Career Development Quarterly, 1991
Administered Counseling Form of Career Maturity Inventory Attitude Scale and measure of appropriateness of career choices to 83 Black and 239 White high school students. White students scored significantly higher than Blacks in Involvement, Independence, and Compromise in Career Decision Making and on Appropriateness of Career Choices. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Black Students, Career Choice, High School Students, High Schools