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Analysis of Responses to Vocational Interest Items: A Study of Australian High School Students. Occasional Paper Number 10.
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Athanasou, James A. – 1999
A study used item response theory to examine the vocational interests of 2,709 high school students (1,436 males; 1,273 females) in Australia in relation to Holland's vocational interest typology (1973, 1985, 1997), which identifies six fundamental vocational types (realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional) that…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools