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Peer reviewedKuder, Frederic; Diamond, Esther E.; Zytowski, Donald G. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1998
Predictive validity, generally taken to be the prime validity that occupationally normed interest inventories should demonstrate, is dependent on the capacity of an instrument to differentiate between occupations. A comparison of two methods of differentiation shows that a method using proportions of each occupational group to assign item-scoring…
Descriptors: Interest Inventories, Occupational Tests, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity
