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Elliott, Timothy R.; Byrd, E. Keith – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1985
Examined the performance of ninth-grade students on the Self-Directed Search during small group administrations monitored by a counselor. Results indicated scoring errors were high in comparison to norms. The percentage of erroneous summary codes was higher while transposition errors were lower, suggesting group administration with a proctor…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Grade 9, Occupational Tests, Proctoring
PDF pending restorationMohr, E. Sue; Rumsey, Michael G. – 1978
The study compared male and female performance on the Cadet Evaluation Battery (CEB), a measure of Army officer potential, and compared male scores achieved in two testing periods 4 years apart. The CEB was administered to 637 male cadets in the second year of the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) in 1971 and to 1,035 female and 926…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Females, Higher Education, Leadership Qualities
Download full textAthanasou, 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
Athanasou, James A.; Cooksey, Ray W. – 1986
Self-estimates of vocational interests have been the subject of research since 1941, but there has not been a previous review or meta-analysis. Thirty-three articles relating to self-evaluation of vocational interests were located through manual and computer searches of the psychological literature. The median values of 24 rank correlations…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Guidance, Foreign Countries
Pezzoli, Jean A. – 1979
The revised and renamed Strong Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) is examined to determine if the occupational and sex biases present in the older Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) were eliminated. It is concluded that an occupational bias (favoring professional rather than blue-collar occupations) still exists in the SCII, although there is…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Career Counseling, Females, Interest Inventories
Kapes, Jerome T.; And Others – 1992
This paper reviews the 12 career assessment instruments that have been found to be most used in Texas with students with special needs. Two tables list the instruments along with the opinions of users concerning their qualities. The reviews follow a standard outline. Each review is one to two pages in length and provides this information: title,…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Guidance
