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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.

Peer reviewed

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