Interest assessment typically consists of a person indicating whether he or she likes, dislikes, or is indifferent to a task. A more appropriate technology for career interest assessment is needed and one such program is presented. Interest assessment in career counseling has been based on the concept of the "discriminant bridge" developed by…

Internals had a significantly higher grade point average than Externals; Consistents had a higher grade point average than Inconsistents, but no significant interaction effects between vocational interest patterns and locus of control were found. (Author)

Used a content-oriented strategy to develop three alternative selection inventories designed to reflect the content domain of positions held by attorneys (N=329) with a federal agency. Criterion-related validities of the Background Inventory and Interest and Opinion Inventory and one alternative inventory (an "Accomplishment Record" Inventory)…

Examined the potential of photographic stimuli portraying well-known occupational activities to elicit vocationally relevant responses. Special education high school students (N=80) responded to 15 color photographs. Results indicated 97.1 percent effectiveness in identifying the stimulus content. Concluded that photographs consisting of…

Presents a workshop focusing on increasing: self-knowledge of participants and their environment, and decision making skills for occupational midlife reassessment and change. Concludes that these workshops should be pursued by counselors in other settings to assist clients in transition. Personal sharing among participants led to self-insight and…

Examines the predictive accuracy of expressed versus measured interests over a 21-year period, using as a criterion occupational membership at age 36. Found expressed interests slightly better predictors. Supplementary analyses revealed no relationship between the extent to which interests corresponded to age 36 occupations and job satisfaction.…

Compared the responses of counseling center clients (N=100) to a measure of inventoried interests and a measure of expressed interests. Results found the five highest basic interests of the two measures were rather strongly related, but the relationships between the five highest occupational scales were less clearly related. (Author)

Occupational interest scales and homogeneous scales were developed and compared on a sample of 3,072 Air Force personnel in a double cross-validation design. Results indicated that the occupational scales were slightly superior in correctly classifying satisified personnel v people in general. (Author/JKS)

Compared the interpretive format of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII), the Self-Directed Search (SDS), and the Vocational Card Sort (VCS). The SDS and VCS Holland themes were more closely related to the expressed choices of subjects. Few treatment differences existed. (Author)

Female high school students plan to study less mathematics than their male classmates, both in and after high school. Career interests of students seem to affect their plans for the study of high school mathematics. Significant sex differences suggest that sex-role stereotyping occurs. (Author)

Interpreting interest inventories correctly encourages client understanding and decision-making skills. Inadequate time and information overload can be major obstacles. Weinrach's Discrepancy Identification can minimize these problems in interpreting the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey. Includes a response by Diamond on scoring. (JAC)

Grades generally demonstrated significant correlations with hypothesized work values. Science grades correlated highly with three Career Orientation and Placement Survey scales: investigative, practical, and independence. English grades yielded median correlations with orderly and recognition scales. Art, music, industrial arts, and humanities had…

Results indicate student involvement scales manifest levels of reliability which are adequate for studying group differences, such as dropouts and persistors. Scales tend to be positively related to student satisfaction in conceptually similar areas. (Author)

The results support the contention that the Occupational Alternatives Question, in spite of its simplicity, yields coherent and meaningful results relative to vocational indecision. Expressed choice, as delineated, has a useful degree of concurrent validity with other measures of vocational indecision. (Author)