National Career Development Association (NCDA) is excited to release the re-imagined 7th edition of their influential guide to career assessment. Re-conceptualized and renamed to "A Comprehensive Guide to Career Assessment," the "Guide" contains important information career counselors, educators, and practitioners will find…

This book contains exemplary resources for counselors, career development facilitators, school counselors, and other career professionals working in a variety of settings. This edition is an essential guide to career assessment and contains a comprehensive list of career assessment instruments. It has over 70 reviews and includes…

Four creativity self-identification measures are reviewed: GIFT (Group Inventory for Finding Creative Talent); GIFFI1 and GIFFI2 (Group Inventory for Finding Interests); and PRIDE (Preschool Interest Descriptor). The characteristics approach as measured by self-report and parent-report inventories is seen as effective and efficient. (CL)

The fit between individuals and their work environments has received decades of theoretical and empirical attention. This study investigated two antecedents to individuals' perceptions of fit: vocational interests and personality. More specifically, the authors hypothesized that vocational interests assessed in terms of the Career Occupational…

A simple interest inventory that learning disabled students can answer either in writing or orally is presented and remedial instructors are encouraged to use information gained from such inventories to help motivate learning. (DB)

Principles in gifted identification are noted, and the contributions of such approaches as GIFT (Gift Inventory for Finding Creative Talent), GIFF I and II (Group Inventory For Finding Interests), and PRIDE (Preschool Interest Descriptor) are described. Following a synopsis of research on these creativity inventories, the article discusses their…

Maintains that sex bias in vocational interest assessment is a serious problem. Provides suggestions on what to do about it as well as information on vocational interest assessment. (JOW)

This document is a manual for a work interest inventory to be used by examiners who want to identify the vocational preferences of special education students. The advantages of this test over others are stated to be the minimal perceptual skills and reading abilities needed to complete the answer sheet, depiction of work areas in which special…

This document presents the second edition of the World-of-Work map. The World-of-Work map is described as a depiction of important similarities and differences among occupations using J. L. Holland's hexagon, which shows relationships among six types of occupations (realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional). The…

This digest discusses demographic, technological and other factors influencing adult career development and describes new career services, assessment instruments, and interventions for adults. Problems with research in the area of adult career development are noted. (MCF)

Tips are offered for using the needs/interest survey process to provide continuing and community education programmers with information for setting goals and establishing program objectives. Some of the 50 tips include using only those questions essential to programming, restricting the length, targeting the survey, getting input on topics…

This booklet provides adult basic education teachers with information on 77 tests and measurement instruments currently available that were mentioned as useful and effective on a survey of approximately 350 adult education teachers in Pennsylvania and others throughout the country. The tests are listed under the categories of diagnostic,…

The paper examines issues, philosophy and guidelines for psychological assessment of the disabled. Focused on are: (1) adjustments in testing procedures and (2) applicability of standard norms with commonly used psychological test instruments for the assessment of ability, interest, and personality. The importance of accurate assessment for…

This report is a preliminary investigation of differences in the pattern and level of interests between ethnic groups and control groups of Australian subjects. A theoretical framework for the development of cultural differences in interests is outlined. Self-estimates of interests are also examined to determine the extent to which individuals…

Compared quality of counselors' written evaluations following an initial interview with clients. Results indicated quality of intake evaluations was lower for vocational than for personal problems. Counselors' interest in doing intakes, studying the results of interest inventories, and doing vocational and personal counseling related to the…