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Healy, Charles C. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1974
Scales of the Career Development Inventory correlated significantly with certainty of career goals for college students but not with the incorporation score. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Rating Scales, Research Projects
Peer reviewedTilden, Jr., Arnold J. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1978
Studies the application of the monotonic criterion, i.e., career development proceeds in a continuous pattern. Systematic increases in scores on the Career Development Inventory are shown by high school students, but not by college students. Findings and related theory support discontinuity of career development process after high school. (DOW)
Descriptors: Career Development, College Students, High School Students, Research Projects
Hansen, Jo-Ida C. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1977
Results of assigning Holland codes to items seems reasonable, and the codes may be used in future item pool revisions to balance item content, to eliminate poorly defined items, and to select items that are perceived identically by females and males. (Author)
Descriptors: Interest Inventories, Item Analysis, Research Projects, Response Style (Tests)
Meir, Elchanan I. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1978
In this study of Roe's Occupational Classification, the author first hypothesizes that occupations differ in their perceived statuses. Secondly, he hypothesizes that Roe's eight occupational fields have a similar perceived status; and thirdly, he hypothesizes that there is no interaction effect of fields and levels. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, High School Students, Interest Inventories
Moore, Thomas L.; McLean, James E. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1977
Based upon the item analysis, reliability, and factorial validity results of this study, there is reason to question the applicability of the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI) Attitude Scale to a college population. In particular, students with self-expressed and measured levels of vocational maturity significantly differ from the norming…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, College Students, Interest Inventories
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
Peer reviewedMcGowan, Andrew S. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1977
High school males (N=66) and 60 high school females were tested for anxiety and vocational maturity levels. The experimental subjects were given the Self Directed Search (SDS). Statistical analysis indicated that the SDS was an effective instrument in reducing career indecision. (Author)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Decision Making
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
