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Peer reviewedWestbrook, Bert W.; Sanford, Eleanor E.; Waters, Sandy – Journal of Career Assessment, 1999
A rating scale to assess career choices was tested with 143 high school students. Scores correlated with an objective testing method based on the American College Test (ACT) Career Planning Program. (SK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, High School Students, High Schools
Peer reviewedWestbrook, Bert W.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1971
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Grade 9, Multiple Choice Tests
Peer reviewedWestbrook, Bert W. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1988
Makes six suggestions for selecting appropriate career assessment instruments in the areas of proper training, use of the right kind of standards, deciding what information is needed, getting written documentation about tests under consideration, careful evaluation of instruments, and becoming familiar with issues in career assessment. (ABL)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Westbrook, Bert W. – Counseling Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Planning, Content Analysis
Peer reviewedWestbrook, Bert W.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1980
Ninth graders and technical college students were tested to determine the validity of the Crites model of career maturity. Results showed career choice competencies are fairly highly related to each other. There is a relationship between career maturity and sex and race of student. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Choice, Communication Skills, Higher Education
Peer reviewedWestbrook, 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
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
Peer reviewedWestbrook, 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
Peer reviewedWestbrook, Bert W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
Presents the results of a study examining whether the two dimensions of Career Choice Attitudes and Career Choice Competencies are interrelated as hypothesized in the Crites model of career maturity. To test six associational hypotheses derived from the Crites model three career maturity instruments were administered to ninth-grade pupils (N=90).…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Planning
Peer reviewedWestbrook, 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
Peer reviewedWestbrook, 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
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
Download full textWestbrook, Bert W. – 1971
As with any new theory, it is necessary to validate the basic construct of vocational maturity. Once this is done, instruments to measure vocational maturity, or decision making, can be evaluated. With this as an objective, this paper discusses some of the problems associated with measuring vocational maturity, such as identifying variables,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Planning, Counseling Theories
Peer reviewedWestbrook, 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
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
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