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Download full textBartling, Herbert C.; Hood, Albert B. – 1980
The usefulness of vocational interest measures has been questioned by those who have studied the predictive validity of expressed choice. The predictive validities of measured interest for decided and undecided students, expressed choice and measured interest, and expressed choice and measured interest when they are congruent and incongruent were…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Graduates, Congruence (Psychology), Followup Studies
Gwazda, Edward; And Others – 1979
This handbook was written to provide an overview of rapidly-changing energy fields and occupations. The first of five sections contains descriptions of over sixty separate fields organized into the following four areas of energy-related work: development, production, distribution, conservation. The second section contains an outline and…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Career Planning, Development, Employment Opportunities
Schellie and Associates, Indianapolis, IN. – 1965
A detailed proposal for a public junior college district in central Illinois. Preliminary study areas focus on population characteristics, assessed valuation, and the geographic location of the proposed facilities with respect to other colleges and to the recommended district. Special studies within the proposed district are concerned with…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Demography, Educational Finance, Enrollment Influences
Rosen, Pamela, Ed. – 1975
These quarterly bulletins provide brief annotations for tests of the following types recently acquired by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Test Collection: achievement; aptitude; personality, interests, attitudes, and opinions; and miscellaneous, sensory-motor, and unidentified. To provide information about instruments for those engaged in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Annotated Bibliographies, Aptitude Tests, Attitude Measures
Crump, Carol B., Ed. – 1974
This document contains abstracts of papers from a workshop resulting from events stemming from the Office of Education report, A Look at Women in Education: Issues and Answers for HEW. This report charged that a particular career interest inventory was sex-biased, but no operational definition of sex bias was given, the issues involved were not…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Guidelines, Interest Inventories, Sex Bias
Sofge, Charles T. – 1974
A primary objective of this research was the development of predictors of academic performance and satisfaction for aeronautical engineering students. Three basic types of data used to develop predictors were biographical (historical), academic aptitude (graduate record exam), and individual interests (Strong Vocational Interest Blank) data.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aerospace Technology, Aptitude Tests, Interest Inventories
Abrahams, Norman M.; And Others – 1968
As part of a program to evaluate noncognitive tests for use in classifying recruits, the Navy Vocational Interest Inventory (NVII) was validated against "A" school achievement and analyzed for its ability to differentiate men in different ratings. The NVII was administered experimentally to incoming students at seven "A"…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classification, Enlisted Personnel, Interest Inventories
Winefordner, David W. – 1969
The Ohio Vocational Interest Survey (OVIS) has two aims: (1) to assist youth in understanding themselves in relation to the world of work and, (2) as a result, to provide a background for career choice. To do so, OVIS provides a functional system for relating an individual's interests into broad homogeneous clusters of jobs. OVIS consists of a…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Guidance Centers
Rosen, Pamela, Ed. – 1974
This quarterly bulletin lists and provides brief annotations for the instruments recently acquired by the Test Collection, a specialized library of tests and test related information. Types of tests listed are: Achievement; Aptitude; Personality, Interests, Aptitudes and Opinions; and Sensory-Motor. Other information includes announcements of new…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Annotated Bibliographies, Aptitude Tests, Attitude Measures
1974
These guidelines deal specifically with the context in which the measurement of interests occurs and the interpretive materials which are made available to test users. They are classified and discussed in three categories: guidelines intended to inform the test user of possible factors influencing a sex-biased response on interest inventories;…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Guidelines, Interest Inventories, Research
Flanagan, John C.; And Others – 1973
The Student Booklet is a companion document to "The Career Data Book: Results from Project TALENT'S Five-year Followup Study" (CE 000 755). The booklet's purpose is to enable the high school student to compare his abilities, achievements, interests, and background with those of other young people who went into various occupations so he…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Career Choice, High School Students, Interest Inventories
Lau, Alan W.; Abrahams, Norman M. – 1969
The purpose of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of the area (homogeneous) scales of the Navy Vocational Interest Inventory (NVII) as predictors of Class "A" school achievement and as measures of rating differentiation by comparing specific occupational scales with more general interest measures--the NVII area scales. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Armed Forces, Bibliographies, Graphs
Geist, Harold – 1964
The purposes of this inventory are to: 1) assess quantitatively eleven male and twelve female general interest areas; 2) identify motivating forces behind occupational choice; 3) provide an interest inventory for working with those having limited verbal abilities; 4) provide possible additional information through projective uses; 5) further…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Check Lists, Females, Interest Inventories
Liberty, Paul G., Jr.; Malone, Lana C. – 1973
This study is concerned with attempting to examine professional work-orientations and personality characteristics of graduate students majoring in counseling and school psychology. Forty-nine graduate students in a required graduate course in psychometrics were asked to respond to the "I Favor" Questionnaire, an instrument that assesses…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Graduate Students, Individual Characteristics, Interest Inventories
MACDONALD, NEIL W. – 1966
A BASIS FOR A GENERAL THEORY TO EXPLAIN PREFERENCES OF COMMERCIAL TELEVISION (TV) SHOWS WAS DEVELOPED. THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF THE STUDY WAS BASED ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF EDUCATIONAL LEVEL TO TV PREFERENCES, AND THE STUDY SAMPLE CONSISTED OF SEVENTH-GRADE THROUGH COLLEGE-LEVEL STUDENTS. FINDINGS SHOWED THAT AS EDUCATION INCREASES, DEMAND FOR…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Broadcast Television, Individual Development, Interest Inventories
