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The Relationship Between Cognitive Career Maturity and Self-Reported Career Maturity of High School Students.
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Westbrook, Bert W.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1987
Investigated relationship between scores on measures of cognitive career maturity and self-reported career maturity in high school sophomores (N=391) and juniors (N=283). Results suggest that there is no relationship between measured career maturity competencies and self-reported career maturity competencies of high school students. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Competence, High School Students, High Schools
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
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
Reliability and Construct Validity of New Measures of Career Maturity for 11th-Grade Students.
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Westbrook, Bert W.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1987
Investigated the reliability and validity of the Revised Research Edition of the Career Planning Questionnaire, an instrument designed to measure six theoretically different aspects of career maturity. Provided a more definitive criterion measure than those used previously, and addressed the issue of alternate forms reliability for two separate…
Descriptors: Career Planning, High Schools, Psychological Testing, Questionnaires
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
Career Maturity in Grade 9: The Relationship between Accuracy of Self-Appraisal and Ability to Appraise the Career-Relevant Capabilities of Others.
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Westbrook, Bert W.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1988
Found ability of ninth graders (N=365) to accurately appraise career-relevant capabilities of others had nothing to do with ability to be good self-appraisers. Found race and sex differences in ability to appraise others. Found scholastic ability accounted for four times as much variance in ability to appraise others as oneself. Found students…
Descriptors: Evaluative Thinking, Grade 9, High School Freshmen, High Schools
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