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Peer reviewedKimball, James C. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1988
Developed paper-and-pencil and microcomputer versions of prototype occupational interest inventory for academically disadvantaged or functionally illiterate adults. Compared results obtained from 30 such adults on the United States Employment Service Interest Inventory and both versions of the prototype inventory. Results revealed acceptable…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Comparative Testing, Computer Assisted Testing
Plake, Barbara S., Ed.; Witt, Joseph C., Ed. – 1986
An introduction by Barbara S. Plake and Joseph C. Witt defines the task of this book as presenting nine conference papers discussing probable directions for the field of measurement and testing. In an effort to contribute to the improvement of test construction and test usage, areas of present concern and potentially important areas for the future…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Certification, Computer Assisted Testing, Diagnostic Tests
Download full textPeterson, Norman G., Ed. – 1987
As part of the United States Army's Project A, research has been conducted to develop and field test a battery of experimental tests to complement the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery in predicting soldiers' job performance. Project A is the United States Army's large-scale manpower effort to improve selection, classification, and…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Classification, Cognitive Measurement, Computer Assisted Testing
Curran, Linda T. – 1996
The Department of Defense is developing norms for its Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) and the newly created Interest Finder, a vocational interest inventory. The normative effort, called the 1997 Profile of American Youth (PAY97), will be undertaken as part of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adolescents, Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces
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The purpose of this paper is to report on the development of the first online self-directed inventory on the measurement of academic programme preferences (MAPP) for potential students at the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK). In this study, trait-factor theory and personality type theory were employed. 1,963 respondents in Hong Kong were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Lifelong Learning, Distance Education
