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Harmon, Lenore W. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1973
Bias in interest testing occurs if tests are used to encourage an individual to consider, enter, or reject an occupation or type of occupation on the basis of an irrelevant variable, sex. In general, the externally referenced inventories, which reflect the current state of affairs and have well established predictive powers, have the most…
Descriptors: Bias, Career Choice, Interest Inventories, Measurement
Rowe, Wayne – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1973
A group of 44 undergraduates was administered the Personal Orientation Inventory under different instructions to fake good'' toward two expectations. Results indicated that scores were significantly affected in the hypothesized directions. Earlier findings about the effect of dissimulation on PO1 scores were equivocal and conclusions expressed…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Interest Inventories, Interests
