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Morgan, Brandon; de Bruin, Gideon P. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2019
This study set out to develop a short interest inventory based on Holland's model of vocational personality types using items from the South African Career Interest Inventory (SACII). In study 1, we used 1000 responses to the SACII from an existing database to select 30 items for this interest inventory. Satisfactory reliability and structural…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Interest Inventories, Test Construction, Test Validity
Mese, Can – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2021
Interest has a key role in the learning and teaching processes. However, interest could be categorized as individual, situational, and topic interest. Situational interest that educators could design, develop, and organize with instructional design is the most significant. The structure of situational interest consists of triggered situational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Likert Scales, Interest Inventories, Instructional Design
Fu, Mingchen; Zhang, Li-Fang – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2019
The article describes the development and validation of the Career Personality Styles Inventory (CPSI). The CPSI comprehensively assesses Holland's career personality styles with only 22 items. Based on a series of 3 studies, we found satisfactory internal consistency, factor structure, and criterion validities of the newly constructed CPSI.
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Vocational Interests, Interest Inventories, Test Reliability
Roller, Sarah A.; Lampley, Sandra A.; Dillihunt, Monica L.; Benfield, Michael P. J.; Gholston, Sampson E.; Turner, Matthew W.; Davis, Andrew M. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2020
In response to a growing need for STEM professionals, this study reports the results of the initial validation of a refined survey instrument that purports to measure the five constructs of the social cognitive career theory framework within the subjects of mathematics, science, engineering and technology. To investigate the instrument's…
Descriptors: Interest Inventories, Student Interests, STEM Education, Social Theories
Kong, Jin; Xu, Yonghong Jade; Zhang, Hao – Journal of Educational Issues, 2016
In this study, data collected from 875 college freshman and sophomore students enrolled in a 4-year university in central China are used to examine the applicability and validity of a Chinese version of Holland's Self-Directed Search (SDS) that was adapted in the 1990s. The total sample was randomly divided into two groups. Data from the first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Test Reliability, Test Validity
Ceyhun, Serdar – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
This study aims to develop a valid and reliable measurement instrument with the intent of determining the interest levels of university students towards utilizing sports facilities. In the context, target population of the study consists of the Karabük University while its sampling consists of 700 (290 females and 410 males) students who study in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Recreational Facilities, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Sen, Senol; Yilmaz, Ayhan; Temel, Senar – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
Developing an attitude influential in individuals' behaviours and related with academic achievement is a concept whose development science educators consider important. This research aims to adapt the 8-item Attitude toward the Subject of Chemistry Inventory (ASCI)--which was developed by Bauer (2008) and revised by Xu and Lewis (2011)--into…
Descriptors: Interest Inventories, Attitude Measures, Media Adaptation, Chemistry
Koyunlu Unlu, Zeynep; Dokme, Ilbilge; Unlu, Veli – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Problem Statement: Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education has recently become a remarkable research topic, especially in developed countries as a result of the skilled workforce required in the fields of the STEM. Considering that professional tendencies are revealed at early ages, determining students' interest in STEM…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Career Choice, Student Interests
Mudarra, Maria J.; Lázaro Martínez, Ángel – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2014
Introduction: The current study demonstrates empirical and cultural validity of "La Clave Profesional" (Spanish adaptation of Career Key, Jones's test based Holland's RIASEC model). The process of providing validity evidence also includes a reflection on personal and career development and examines the relationahsips between RIASEC…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Validity, Career Guidance, Vocational Interests
Çiçek, Ö.; Ilhan, N. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2017
Students are more likely to be successful in topics they are interested in than others. This study aims to develop an Acid-Base Interest Scale (ABIS) and subsequently evaluate the interest of pre-service science teachers in acids-bases according to gender, years at the university, type of high school the pre-service science teachers attended, and…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Science Interests, Chemistry, Science Tests
Athanasou, James A. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2011
This article reflects on the history of interest assessment in Australia in the last 45 years. In it the author would like to review some aspects of the history of interest assessment in Australia from his personal perspective as a user and researcher. He suggests that the present state of interest assessment in Australia using inventories is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interest Inventories, Career Guidance, Rating Scales
Dan, Yongjun; Wei, Tianlan; Zhao, Wenjun – Journal of International Social Studies, 2013
The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a History Interest Inventory (HII) to measure Chinese K-12 students' history interest. In this study, data were drawn from two independent samples of a city in Eastern China, and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were conducted to reduce instrument size…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Interest Research, Interest Inventories
Schermer, Julie Aitken; MacDougall, Robyn – Journal of Career Assessment, 2011
The Jackson Career Explorer (JCE) is a short form and continuous version of the Jackson Vocational Interest Survey (JVIS). The 34 scales of the JCE were investigated in relation to the Career Directions Inventory (CDI). Participants (N = 282) aged 14-57 years were volunteers from local high schools and colleges and completed both measures. The…
Descriptors: Interest Inventories, Vocational Interests, Test Reliability, Test Validity
ACT, Inc., 2013
This manual contains information about the American College Test (ACT) Plan® program. The principal focus of this manual is to document the Plan program's technical adequacy in light of its intended purposes. This manual supersedes the 2011 edition. The content of this manual responds to requirements of the testing industry as established in the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Research, Test Bias
Armstrong, Patrick Ian; Allison, Wyndolyn; Rounds, James – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
Although commercially developed interest measures based on Holland's RIASEC types are effectively used in a variety of applied settings, these measures have somewhat limited research utility due to their length and copyright restrictions placed by the test publishers. In the present study, two sets of 8-item RIASEC scales were developed using…
Descriptors: College Students, Copyrights, Validity, Vocational Interests