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Peer reviewedHarrington, Thomas F.; O'Shea, Arthur J. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1980
The confirmation of the Holland hexagonal model in a Spanish-speaking sample suggests that results of earlier factor analytic studies of vocational interests are applicable to Spanish-speaking young persons. Counselors must provide their Spanish-speaking clients with intensive information resources. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Development, Cultural Influences, Models, Occupational Tests
Download full textKane, Michael T. – 1990
Developing good criterion measures of professional performance is difficult. If criterion-related validity evidence for certification requirements could not be generalized beyond the specific context in which it was obtained, gathering that evidence would probably not be worth the effort. This paper examines two possible approaches to the…
Descriptors: Certification, Comparative Analysis, Concurrent Validity, Criterion Referenced Tests
Peer reviewedD'Costa, Ayres G. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1986
Job relevance and adverse impact are major validity concerns relative to credentializing examinations. This article recommends that examination blueprints utilize a competency model based on: (1) job functions assigned; (2) level of expertise expected given the content and resources available; and (3) specific context and situation in which the…
Descriptors: Adults, Certification, Competence, Credentials
Peer reviewedKane, Michael T. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1992
A proposed model for the validity of measures of professional competence treats validation as the evaluation of inferences drawn from test scores, focusing on evaluation, generalization, and extrapolation. The model is used to indicate strengths and weaknesses of assessments of professional competence: observations of performance, simulations, and…
Descriptors: Competence, Evaluation Methods, Generalization, Inferences
Mitchell, Karen Janice – 1983
A model of verbal performance was developed which defined cognitive processes thought to underlie performance on the Word Knowledge and Paragraph Comprehension subtests of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). The items from two forms of these ASVAB verbal subtests were rated on five conceptualized cognitive storage processes:…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
Canadian Commission of Employment and Immigration, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1983
This collection of articles on vocational guidance and counseling is one of the NATCON series produced by the Canadian Employment and Immigration Commission to improve the methodology of vocational guidance and employment counseling. Ten articles are included in the book. They cover the following subjects: a processing of counseling psychology for…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Career Development
