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Peer reviewedPunch, Keith F.; Sheridan, Barrett E. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1985
Describes a series of psychometric analyses of the Career Development Inventory (CDI), using latent trait measurement models, with a sample of 680 Australian high school students. Results suggest that, although some modifications are needed, the CDI has generally desirable psychometric properties. (JAC)
Descriptors: High School Students, High Schools, Measurement Techniques, Psychometrics
Peer reviewedErwin, T. Dary – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1988
Examined the relationships of the similarity or dissimilarity of beginning and ending college majors with a test of career decisiveness and the number of college changes in major. Calculated a freshman-senior college major similarity index based on Holland's calculus construct. Found the index to be moderately related to career decisiveness and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Higher Education, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewedWestbrook, Bert W.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1987
Investigated relationship between scores on measures of cognitive career maturity and self-reported career maturity in high school sophomores (N=391) and juniors (N=283). Results suggest that there is no relationship between measured career maturity competencies and self-reported career maturity competencies of high school students. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Competence, High School Students, High Schools
Peer reviewedWestbrook, Bert W.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1987
Investigated the reliability and validity of the Revised Research Edition of the Career Planning Questionnaire, an instrument designed to measure six theoretically different aspects of career maturity. Provided a more definitive criterion measure than those used previously, and addressed the issue of alternate forms reliability for two separate…
Descriptors: Career Planning, High Schools, Psychological Testing, Questionnaires
Peer reviewedMiner, Claire Usher; Osborne, W. Larry; Jaeger, Richard M. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1997
Uses regression analysis on career development measures to examine whether career maturity indicators are predictive of interest consistency, differentiation, and score elevation. Results indicate that interest consistency and score elevation were weakly predicted by the measure; no relationship existed between the attitudinal and cognitive…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Planning, College Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHalpin, Glennelle; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1990
Explored validity and reliability of Adult Career Concerns Inventory (ACCI) using data from 104 graduate nursing students. Findings support construct validity and reliability of ACCI. Concluded that, although the ACCI seemed to be psychometrically sound, the use of other measures in conjunction with it would be recommended practice in assessing…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Development, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedWestbrook, Bert W.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1988
Hypothesized that individuals who can make appropriate career choices for others can make appropriate career choices for themselves. Results from 365 ninth-graders who completed Goal Selection subtest of Career Maturity Inventory Competence Test and Differential Aptitude Test using the Career Planning Program showed no such relationship among…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Career Choice, Grade 9, High School Freshmen
Peer reviewedSackett, Sharon A.; Hansen, Jo-Ida C. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1995
Analyzed answers of college freshmen who completed the Strong Interest Inventory and who were retested 12 years later. Results show that the presence or absence of well-defined vocational interest patterns among college freshmen bears little relationship to later vocational achievement (a career and annual earning) and to job and career…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Followup Studies, Higher Education
