A revision of the Reading-Free Vocational Interest to eliminate sex bias in the inventory produced a common item pool for males and females, desexed grammar and vocabulary and altered pictorial items. New norms include the learning disabled, adult mentally retarded, and younger educable mentally retarded individuals. (Author/CL)

This study evaluates the relationship of the Career Occupational Preference System, Interest Inventory, Form P (COPS-P) and the Theme and Basic Interest scales of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) to provide construct validity data. Computed scale correlations for a college student sample (n=122) support the theoretical constructs…

This book is a quick reference source to guide the career professional through the essentials of using the most popular career interest tools. It summarizes important technical aspects of each inventory, and offers step-by-step guidance in the interpretation and use of the various inventories. The chapters are: (1) "Overview"; (2)…

The author reports on a study in which the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey was used to test the hypothesis that there are significant differences between the inventoried vocational interests of elementary counselors, junior high counselors, college counselors, vocational counselors, and administrators of guidance. The purpose is to help provide…

This study compared 42 male homosexual college students with heterosexual controls on 19 life experience factors. The factors were developed from a biographical questionnaire and, in turn, were used to develop subgroups homogeneous with respect to previous experience. The homosexuals differed on 8 of the 19 dimensions. The pattern was one…

Eighth grade students in eighteen Pennsylvania School Systems were surveyed to determine the relation between student interests and student enrollment in agriculture courses. Reasons are discussed for the finding that only a small percentage of students who expressed interest in agriculture enrolled in an agriculture class in ninth grade.…

On the basis of previous research findings, 32 new items were added to Super's Work Values Inventory (WVI) and the resulting instrument was administered to 611 high school sophmores. Analyses supported the addition of items to the WVI. The scale intercorrelations and factorial dimensions of both versions were highly comparable; the addition of…

The possible relationship between Holland types and the Basic Interest Scales of the SVIB was explored. The results support both Holland's typology and his hexagonal model of relationships among the types and suggest their use in the interpretation of the BIS. (Author)

Presents the results of a study of the validity and reliability of a modification of the Reed Science Activity Inventory used with British high-ability students. (AL)

Six scales representing Holland's six personality types were developed for the SVIB. The results of this study show that the Holland theoretical structure, when applied to the Strong data, provides a useful model for organizing the data. (Author)

The present study tests the hypothesis that greater relationships will be found between similarly named scales on the two instruments when OIS scale ranks rather than lambda scores are correlated with SVIB standard scores. The hypothesis was not confirmed. (Author)

The relation between occupational level and masculine and feminine interests was investigated to determine whether sex differences in interests would be minimized at the high end of the occupational continuum and dichotomized at the low end. In general, results were consistent with the proposed hypothesis. (Author)

Four factors emerged from the analysis of the OIS and five factors were isolated on the SVIB. This result and the high intercorrelations among the scales within the factors indicate that grouping occupational scales on the OIS is as appropriate as on the SVIB. (Author)