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Download full textJones, Lawrence K. – 1979
The impact of an occupational card sort, the Occu-Sort (O-S), on the thoughts and activities of rural, suburban, and urban junior/senior high school students was assessed to determine the sex bias/fairness of that card sort as a career interest inventory, as well as the reliability and validity of the occupational code structure. Participants were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Career Exploration, Comparative Analysis
Gottfredson, Linda S. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1982
Addresses problems associated with Prediger's article questioning the usefulness and fairness of the unnormed Self-Directed Search (SDS) for females. Discusses issues of sex differences and same-sex test norming. (RC)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Interest Inventories, Norm Referenced Tests, Position Papers
Prediger, Dale J. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1982
Proposes that, while there may be real sex differences in vocational interests, Gottfredson's reanalysis of Self-Directed Search predictive data provides no support for the counseling use of sex-divergent raw interest scores. (RC)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Data Analysis, Interest Inventories, Norm Referenced Tests
