In New Zealand there are four university-based centres for continuing education which provide non-credit short courses. This paper presents data from a survey which was conducted with the intention of building understanding of the cohort of learners who attend short non-credit courses, to better understand their views and values and to determine…

The purpose of this paper is to examine the basic vocational interest dimensions of women. The usefulness of the basic interest dimensions when counseling with women is discussed from a practical and a theoretical point of view. (Author)

Summary of Two presentations to Guidance Section of Div. of New and Related Services, Dec. 10, 1968.

Based on PhD dissertation, University of Minnesota

This reading attitude scale was designed to negate the tendency for students to indicate overly positive attitudes, a tendency which the authors feel is reflected in responses to other attitude scales. There are two forms of the scale: one for grades 1-3 and one for grades 4-6. The primary scale is read to the children and has a three choice…

The draft guidelines are the outcome of a broadly representative three-day workshop and represent a more specific definition than previously available of the many aspects of sex fairness in career interest inventories and related interpretive, technical, and promotional materials. The diverse concerns of inventory users, respondents, authors, and…

The revision of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB), the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII), introduces Holland's theory of occupational types into the empirical structure of the SVIB. Emphasis on Holland's theory is evident throughout the SCII profile. Empirical coding of occupations was accomplished by: (1) scoring each of the…

Scale scores of KOIS profiles of 202 reentry women were converted to within individual form by means of a z-score transformation. Seven factors emerged on the female-normed scales and 11 factors on the male-normed scales. Four factors were similar in both norm sets and two showed some overlap. (Author)

The structure of interests can be conceived of as a structure of occupational stimuli embedded within the matrix of affective responses which they produce. Three dimensions of affect are used as the axes of a semantic space within which the occupational stimuli are located according to their unique affective meaning. (Author)

A general class of differentiation indices is introduced for profiles of scores. Their ordinal properties and an application to Holland's classification system are examined. Comparison with other suggested indices is performed both theoretically and empirically. (Author)

Several concepts related to single and multiple score profile(s) common in career counseling are discussed. An alternative measure, based on the similarity between profiles, is proposed as a measure of congruence and coherence. The proposed measure takes into account the structure of interests and the structure of occupations. (Author/BL)

The relationship of scores on the COPSystem Interest Inventory, Form P to scores on similar constructs of the Vocational Preference Inventory was studied. Scales were matched according to the theoretical assumptions of the constructs. The pattern of magnitude of correlations is interpreted as providing evidence for the instruments' construct…

Examined expressed-inventoried interest agreement for each type of Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory scale in a sample of female college students. Three levels of agreement were established: low, statistical, and high. Findings revealed statistical and high levels of agreement across occupations, in addition to differences in agreement level…

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…

The purpose of this chapter is to describe the utility of the Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI) in concert with a widely used interest inventory associated with Hollands theory of vocational behavior. The chapter begins with an analysis of the gap in career interest assessment, followed by a brief review of the CTI and its uses in practice. A case…