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Harrington, Thomas F. – Career Development Quarterly, 1991
Examined validity of Career Decision-Making System (CDM) by administering CDM to English- and Spanish-speaking subjects in the United States, English- and French-speaking subjects in Canada, and English-speaking subjects in Australia. Results suggest that translation from English to another language or use with persons of another nationality does…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Concurrent Validity, Construct Validity, Cross Cultural Studies
Harrington, Thomas F. – 1989
The field testing process for the collection of data on the norms, reliability, and concurrent validity of the Career Decision-Making System (CDM) is described. The CDM is a comprehensive career planning instrument that surveys interests, values, abilities, and training plans and relates them to career information in client-oriented interpretive…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Planning, College Students, Comparative Testing
Harrington, Thomas F.; Harrington, Joan C. – 1989
Values are important in understanding what a person wants from life, from work, and from the various roles that one plays in life. This study examined the most and least popular values chosen by diverse groups of people: 9,650 U.S. students in grades 7 through 12; 2,925 U.S. college freshmen; 571 Spanish-speaking Americans from Massachusetts and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Career Choice, College Freshmen, Cross Cultural Studies