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Advantages and Disadvantages of the Different Inventoried Approaches to Assessing Career Interests
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Athanasou, James A. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2011
This article reflects on the history of interest assessment in Australia in the last 45 years. In it the author would like to review some aspects of the history of interest assessment in Australia from his personal perspective as a user and researcher. He suggests that the present state of interest assessment in Australia using inventories is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interest Inventories, Career Guidance, Rating Scales
Interpretation of the Results from the Vocational Interest Survey. Information Paper. [Draft].
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Athanasou, James A. – 1986
The user of the Vocational Interest Survey (VIS) has available a number of interpretative approaches at various descriptive and qualitative levels. This report provides a brief outline of the various approaches. Whenever all six scales of the VIS are administered, the client's total score on all six scales should be within the average range. The…
Descriptors: Careers, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Interest Inventories
An Outline of the Development of the Vocational Interest Survey and Preliminary Technical Data. Information Paper. [Draft].
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Athanasou, James A. – 1986
The Vocational Interest Survey (VIS) is a set of six questionnaire scales for measuring vocational interest. It is designed for Australian users and is consistent with Holland's theory that there are six basic career categories. This paper discusses the development of the VIS and presents some technical data on the questionnaires. Items were…
Descriptors: Careers, Construct Validity, Correlation, Foreign Countries