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Download full textKong, Jin; Xu, Yonghong Jade; Zhang, Hao – Journal of Educational Issues, 2016
In this study, data collected from 875 college freshman and sophomore students enrolled in a 4-year university in central China are used to examine the applicability and validity of a Chinese version of Holland's Self-Directed Search (SDS) that was adapted in the 1990s. The total sample was randomly divided into two groups. Data from the first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Test Reliability, Test Validity
Holland, John L. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1976
Prediger confuses observations about the data with Holland's theoretical statement, performs some uninterpretable analyses, omits much relevant data, and provides an incomplete account of what psychometric authorities have said about raw scores in interest inventories. (Author)
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, High School Students, Occupational Tests, Research Projects
Prediger, Dale J. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1976
Holland hypothesized that personality pattern consistency is related to vocational satisfaction, stability, and success. The viability of this key construct in Holland's theory of careers is examined in light of the expected relationship between level of consistency and frequency of occurrence of 2-letter Holland personality codes. Results are…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Factor Analysis, High School Students, Occupational Tests
