Confronted with the possibility that an inventory was sex biased, the NIE Career Education Program found that no generally known and accepted criteria on which to base a decision concerning the extent to which an interest inventory is sex biased existed. This article presents some guidelines. (Author/HMV)

This document is a manual for a work interest inventory to be used by examiners who want to identify the vocational preferences of special education students. The advantages of this test over others are stated to be the minimal perceptual skills and reading abilities needed to complete the answer sheet, depiction of work areas in which special…

The purpose of this study was to test the predictive validity of the Ramak--a vocational interest inventory based on Roe's (1956) classification of occupations. In this follow-up, 81 percent of the original sample, tested 7 years earlier, was located. The effectiveness of the Ramak in vocational counseling is evaluated. (Author)

A principal components analysis was applied to a 135-item pool of the Holland Vocational Preference Inventory, Sixth Revision. The a priori clinical scales were partially upheld with differences attributed to the characteristics of the sample and sociopolitical time context during which the test was administered. (Author)

This research paper examines the meaningfulness of sex differences in the Allport, Vernon and Lindzey (AVL) Study of Values Scale and in selected scales of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII), using somewhat diverse groups of men and women. By comparing men's and women's scores on the two measures, it was found that little accuracy in…

The Ramak and Courses interest inventories based on Roe's (1956) occupational classification were modified for use with subjects who answer negatively to most items in the traditional forms. Negative respondents give more positive responses on the modified forms than on the traditional ones. (Author)

For 151 male graduates of the University of North Dakota, expressed choices measured by preferences made as high school seniors on the ACT Student Profile Section were significantly more accurate predictors of graduating college major and of career entry occupation than were their Vocational Preference Inventory high point codes. (Author)

This article compared the concurrent predictive accuracy of the (SVIB) for the same subjects on three sets of scales, the SVIB-Holland scales, the Basic Interest scales, and the Occupational scales. (Author)

Study completed in part under Grant RD-1127 from the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, Washington, D.C.

All published empirical studies of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII), 1974 thru 1980, are reviewed. While only a few predictive validity studies have been completed, concurrent and construct validity studies are consistently supportive of the validity of the General Occupational Themes, Basic Interest Scales and Occupational Scales.…

RESEARCH IS DIRECTED TOWARD FINDING A METHOD TO IMPROVE EXISTING INSTRUMENTS FOR MEASUREMENT OF NONCOGNITIVE PROCESSES BY USE OF AN EQUISECTION TECHNIQUE TO DEVELOP SCALES OF CURRENT EDUCATIONAL-VOCATIONAL INTERESTS. FACTOR STRUCTURE DEVELOPED WAS MODIFICATION OF COTTLES' INTEREST ITEMS AND WAS BASED ON EMPIRICALLY OR RATIONALLY DEVELOPED KEYS.…

FROM THE CATALOGS AND OTHER DESCRIPTIVE MATERIALS OF 23 PUBLISHERS OF STANDARDIZED TESTS, THE AUTHOR SELECTED GROUP-TYPE, PAPER AND PENCIL, POST-HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS. INFORMATION ABOUT EACH ENTRY INCLUDES (1) THE TITLE, (2) THE PUBLISHER, (3) WORKING TIME, (4) NUMBER OF EQUIVALENT FORMS, (5) A DESCRIPTION, (6) A REFERENCE…

THE PREDICTIVE VALIDITY OF A STUDENT'S EXPRESSED VOCATIONAL CHOICE WAS COMPARED WITH THE PREDICTIVE VALIDITY OF HIS SCORES ON A VOCATIONAL PREFERENCE INVENTORY. THE DATA FOR THE STUDY WAS FURNISHED BY TWO AMERICAN COLLEGE SURVEYS. STUDENTS FROM TWO NATIONWIDE SAMPLES OF 28 COLLEGES WERE POLLED FOR THEIR VOCATIONAL CHOICES AND WERE GIVEN THE SIXTH…