THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO CLARIFY UNDERSTANDING OF SPECIALIZATION OF INTERESTS AND ATTITUDES OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND THE RELATION OF THESE MENTAL CONSTRUCTS TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT. THE MAJOR OBJECTIVES WERE TO DEFINE ATTITUDES WHICH LEAD TO INTRINSIC INTEREST IN SUBJECT-MATTER CONTENT, AND TO DEVELOP AN INSTRUMENT FOR SCALING THE…

THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ASSOCIATION VALUE AND SUBJECTIVE RATINGS OF INTEREST IN NOVEL AND FAMILIAR RANDOM POLYGONS OF THREE LEVELS OF COMPLEXITY. SIGNIFICANT INTERACTIONS WERE OBTAINED BETWEEN THESE VARIABLES AT EACH LEVEL OF COMPLEXITY. THE RESULTS OF THE STUDY WERE INTERPRETED ACCORDING TO CURRENT MOTIVATIONAL…

This paper lists interest and work value inventories which are of proven or potential use in vocational counseling. Each entry includes information about item and response types, for whom it is intended, the kinds of scales and scores employed, and whether interpretation materials are available. The list represents those which are known to be…

Personality, interest, and ability variables differentiated among California junior college students enrolled in occupation-centered curricula. Analytical techniques used were Stepwise Discriminant Analysis and Multivariate Analysis of Variance. Hawaiian students were differentiated on interest measures; Idaho students, on interest and personality…

The Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) has been used in the selection of Navy ROTC scholarship applicants and a scale was developed to identify potential career effectiveness. Consequently, it was necessary to assess the possibility of faking. An earlier study indicated that when under instructions to do so, individuals can increase their…

Two predictions related to educational performance are examined in this experiment: (1) Competitive treatments increase classroom performance and interest on a power test; and (2) game-like competition is as effective as reward competition in increasing classroom performance and interest on a power test. 1,035 fifth and sixth graders from 36…

This paper provides a general perspective for evaluating interest inventories and simulations and outlines some activities to stimulate the development of more useful inventories. Previous evaluations have been primarily instrument-specific; have relied generally on opinion rather than evidence; and have focused only on possible sex, age, race, or…

A test group of 78 students in advanced journalism courses at Ohio University were assigned the role of "editor" in an attempt to determine whether newspaper editors can predict the preferences of their readers. Seventy-eight other students from classes in mass communication, introductory psychology, and journalism were assigned the role of…

Since the state of Ohio has combined the certification requirements for the professions of school librarians and directors of audiovisual services, the professional interests of these two groups were compared to discover if they have identical interests. A questionnaire was devised with rating scales for areas of professional concern. The…

This inventory was undertaken to help college students preparing to teach, as well as other concerned persons, to obtain information on the interests of pre-adolescents. It was also designed to compare the interests of pre-adolescents attending inner city, urban, suburban, and rural schools, in order that lessons and other planned activities would…

TO HELP NONCOLLEGE-BOUND YOUTH MAKE SATISFACTORY OCCUPATIONAL DECISIONS, A PROJECTIVE OCCUPATIONAL ATTITUDE TEST WAS DEVELOPED. THE INSTRUMENT CONSISTED OF 10 DRAWINGS DEPICTING SCENES OF UNSKILLED AND SEMISKILLED MALE OCCUPATIONS. THE SCENES PORTRAYED ARTS, TOOLS, MATERIALS, WORKING ENVIRONMENTS, AND INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. THE INSTRUMENT…

Using a rotated varimax solution based on high school juniors, factor scores on the Vocational Interest Inventory were computed for 300 counseling clients. These factor scores were correlated with the 6 General Theme, 23 Basic Interest, and l24 Occupational Scales to the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory. Based on the strength and direction of…

The predictive validity of the old and new men's Pharmacist scales and the new women's Pharmacist scale on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank was investigated for male and female pharmacy students. Each of the three scales significantly differentiated between graduates and nongraduates from the pharmacy program. (Author/BJG)

This study provides empirical evidence in support of the hypothesis that it is possible to construct a valid interest inventory consisting primarily of items that have been pretested for sex balance. (Author)

Published data on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank profiles of 113 occupational groups are analyzed by three clustering procedures: hierachical grouping of standard scores and of orthonormal factor scores, and NORMIX analysis assuming equal covariance matrices for each group. (Author/JKS)