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Predictive Validity of the USES Interest Inventory for Male Vocational Training Graduates with Severe Handicaps to Employment.
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Bolton, Brian – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1992
Used discriminant analysis of U.S. Employment Service (USES) Interest Inventory to correctly classify 34 percent (weighted) and 37 percent (unweighted hit rate) of male graduates (n=282) with severe handicaps from residential medical and vocational rehabilitation facility to employment into eight vocational training groups. Results support…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Employment Opportunities, Interest Inventories, Males
Predictive Validity of Two Medical Specialty Preference Inventories.
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Savickas, Mark L.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1988
Examined predictive validity of Medical Specialty Preference Scales (MSPS) and Medical Specialty Preference Inventory (MSPI). Administered MSPS to 71 medical students and MSPI to 73 medical students. Findings indicated that MSPI predicted accurately three times more than did MSPS. Based on predictive validity and teaching possibilities, MSPI seems…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Comparative Testing, Higher Education, Interest Inventories
A 20-Year Follow-Up of the Harrington-O'Shea Career Decision-Making System
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Harrington, Thomas F. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2006
The interest inventory of the Harrington-O'Shea Career Decision-Making System (T. F. Harrington & A. J. O'Shea, 1980, 1992, 2003) had hit rates of occupational status substantially exceeding chance expectations in the literature's 1st long-term predictive validity study since 1991. No significant gender differences were found for the Grade 10…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Employment Level, Age Groups, Predictive Validity
Cross-Cultural Predictive Accuracy of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory.
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Fouad, Nadya A.; Hansen, Jo-Ida C. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1987
Investigated the feasibility of transferring the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) into another culture. Examined engineering and law as occupations among students from the United States and Mexico. Used a validated Spanish translation of the inventory. Cross cultural predictive validity was very similar for all student groups. (Author/KS)
Descriptors: College Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Background, Culture Fair Tests