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Kazanas, H. C.; Kraska, M. F. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1981
Discusses a study comparing the differences in perceptions of the meaning and value of work and in occupational awareness of high school seniors in vocational education and nonvocational education programs who were exposed to organized career education experiences and those not exposed to those experiences. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, High School Seniors, High Schools

Meir, Elchanan I.; Shiran, Dalia – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1979
The occupational cylinder demonstrates the hierarchical arrangement of the occupational levels and the circular configuration of occupational fields. In this study, contribution of the cylinder to the vocational maturity of 11th and 12th graders was investigated. The study implies that an understanding of the occupational structure enhances…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, High School Students, Research Projects

Hartman, Bruce W.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1979
Tried to determine reliability and validity of an adapted vocational indecision scale designed for undergraduates. Findings suggest that characteristics of the adapted indecision scale for the graduate students sample are similar to the characteristics of the unadapted instrument for the undergraduate sample. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Multiple Regression Analysis, Test Reliability, Test Validity
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)
Woodbury, Roger; Pate, Dove H. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1977
This study identified dimensions of vocational and personality variables in the Cognitive Vocational Maturity Test (CVMT), Work Values Inventory (WVI), Ohio Vocational Interest Survey (OVIS), and Jesness Inventory (JI) for 410 male delinquents. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Development, Delinquency, Interest Inventories, Personality Assessment

Flouri, Eirini; Buchanan, Ann – Career Development Quarterly, 2002
Using data for 2,722 British adolescents explores whether work-related skills and career role models are associated with career maturity when sociodemographic characteristics, family support, and personal characteristics are controlled. Having work-related skills and having a career role model were positively associated with career maturity.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Career Exploration, Decision Making

Wessel, Roger D.; Christian, Nicholas T.; Hoff, Alison K. – Journal of Career Development, 2003
The effectiveness of the Career Success Club, which engaged college students in career management activities, was measured by comparing 206 members and 212 nonmembers (170 freshmen, 125 sophomores/juniors, 123 seniors). Sophomores, juniors, and seniors displayed more enhanced career development than freshmen. (Contains 40 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Planning, Class Rank, College Students

Salzberg, Charles L.; And Others – Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education, 1987
Reports results of a questionnaire completed by 18 supervisors of entry-level employees. Supervisors ranked each of their subordinates from most to least likely to be hired and identified the behaviors that made these individuals more or less valuable to the organization. Implications and recommendations are presented. (CH)
Descriptors: Adults, Employer Attitudes, Employment Potential, Entry Workers

Conneran, J. Mark; Hartman, Bruce W. – Journal of Career Development, 1993
Data from 112 of 126 twelfth-grade vocational students who completed Career Decision Scale, My Vocational Situation, and Self-Directed Search showed that chronically career undecided students had lower levels of congruence and vocational identity. Such students may need a more psychotherapeutic approach to career counseling. (SK)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Concurrent Validity, Decision Making, High School Students

Thomason, Sharon L.; Winer, Jane L. – Journal of Career Development, 1994
Data from 115 college freshmen under age 20 show that career maturity is not significantly related to independence from parents. Intelligence was significantly and positively related to most career maturity and independence scales for women but not for men. Men were both less career mature and more independent from their mothers than women were.…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Freshmen, Family Relationship, Higher Education

Westbrook, Bert W.; And Others – Journal of Career Assessment, 1996
The Cognitive Vocational Maturity Test-Duties subtest was completed by 180 12th graders and 172 11th graders (who were retested in 12th grade). Their teachers rated appropriateness of 11th graders' career choices. Test scores correlated significantly with teacher ratings, grade point average, and planned educational level, but not with…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Grade 11, Grade 12, High Schools
Patton, Wendy; Creed, Peter; Spooner-Lane, Rebecca – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2005
This article reports on a further exploration into the reliability and validity of the shortened form of the Career Development Inventory-Australia (Creed & Patton, 2004), a career maturity measure being developed to meet the need for a shorter and more up-to-date measure to provide data on this career development construct. Data gathered from…
Descriptors: Vocational Maturity, Construct Validity, Validity, Factor Structure
Seifert, Karl H. – 1991
In the first part of this paper, the current status of criterion-related validity research in the field of career development assessment is analyzed. It is shown that the results of intermediate and long-term follow-up studies--in contrast to studies in the same educational setting--provide only little evidence for the assumption that career…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Career Development, Concurrent Validity, Foreign Countries

Omvig, Clayton P.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1975
This study was designed to assess the effects of a career education program on students' career maturity as measured by the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI). Results indicate that the career education program had a positive effect in increasing students' levels of career maturity. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning, Counseling
Brillinger, Ray – Canadian Training Methods, 1975
Descriptors: Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Individual Development, Problem Solving