A longitudinal study beginning in junior high school demonstrates the significance of occupational need-values in educational and vocational aspirations and in classroom behavior. (Author)

Follow-up of 115 young adults 8 years after high school aptitude and interest testing showed that aptitude-job correspondence predicted satisfactory performance. Interest-job correspondence and satisfactoriness predicted different measures of satisfaction, only when current interests were used. (SK)

These career assessment guidelines provide an assessment packet that can be used by special education teachers or guidance counselors to assess the vocational and career interests of middle and high school special education students. The materials are designed to assist with test interpretation, to help high school students make realistic…

This booklet describes a 5-day orientation and assessment program (for economically disadvantaged people who are unemployed and have no marketable skill) designed (1) To determine the trainees' level of learning, his aptitudes, attitudes, abilities, behaviors and interests in the employment field; and (2) to introduce the trainee to the world of…

How a marriage was arranged between the Dictionary of Occupational Titles and the General Aptitude Test Battery to create an occupational family structure of use in vocational counseling. (Author)

Findings suggested that the prevocational exploratory experience was statistically effective in contributing to a positive change in the relationship between Ss' vocational interests and ability. (Author/DLS)

John Holland's Self-Directed Search-Form E (SDS-E) is a vocational personality assessment instrument based upon the well-known Self-Directed Search (SDS) but designed for use with poor readers or children. Virtually no data are available in the professional literature pertaining to the SDS-E. High school students (N=44) in five remedial reading…

Reviews of 20 career guidance measures are reprinted from the Association for Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development's "Newsnotes." Each entry includes author, title, publisher, purpose, format, scoring, norms, cost, review, concerns, and additional reviews. These tests cover the areas of occupational interests, career awareness,…

This booklet is designed to serve as a resource for students to use in choosing an occupation. The importance of choosing an occupation with care is discussed. Provided next is a checklist that organizes selected clusters of jobs according to broad areas of interest. A chart depicting basic cognitive and perceptual abilities is presented. Included…

A compelling case has been made for improving the process of admissions, selection, and enrollment of students in vocational education programs. A key element in this improvement would be the adoption of a statewide assessment of vocational aptitudes and interests of ninth-grade students in Alabama as a measure of student career development and…

This study was conducted to evaluate the usefulness of discriminant analysis in classifying vocational and technical curricular groups in a single secondary school setting. The researchers compared scores on the Dailey Vocational Test and the Minnesota Vocational Interest Inventory in terms of the selection of vocational and technical courses by…

Presented is the final report of a 3-year project (1970-73) to provide vocational evaluation in a mobile unit for the 330 intellectually limited students in grade 10 special classes in the Baltimore County schools. Main project aims are given to be evaluation at home schools and subsequent development of recommendations for using school and…

Performed correlational and multidimensional scaling analyses to assess the similarity between two models. Results support the similarity in structure between the people-things dimension from Holland's RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional) model with the affiliation dimension from Wiggins' interpersonal…

Designed to provide information about the Vocational Career Assessment Instruments Collection maintained at the New Jersey Occupational/Consumer Resource Center, this handbook contains a complete listing of the instruments in the test collection, a descriptive summary information sheet for each test, a list of test publisher information, and a…

The United States Employment Service (USES), in cooperation with State employment services, has conducted a continuing program of occupational test research and development since the mid-1930's. This program has produced a variety of tests and assessment techniques useful in vocational counseling and in selection of individuals for specific jobs.…