Advances in Vocational Psychology - Vol. 1

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Advances in the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey
Donald G. Zytowski Iowa State University Frederic Kuder Educational and Psychological Measurement, Inc.In the nearly half century since the first Kuder Preference Record was conceived, many changes have been made in the inventories that have emerged from it. Some of them are genuine advances:
• Almost exclusive reliance on activities for item content.
• Triad item format with most/least preferred responses.
• Application of activity preferences to the measurement of personal characteristics (Form A).
• Development of the 10 interest areas of Form C, serving as an organizational structure for interests and occupations.
• Development of a unique methodology to score the criterion group scales of the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (KOIS).

This chapter begins with a recapitulation of Kuder ( 1966, 1977) lambda score method to highlight the advance represented by the KOIS itself, this is not elsewhere presented in a single source. The chapter continues by describing recent changes in the reporting and the content of the KOIS. Finally, it reports a novel application, which Kuder ( 1977, 1980) has called Person-Matching.


THE KOIS AS AN ADVANCE

Interest (and personality) inventories that are criterion-group scaled generally are scored on the basis of the proportion of a given group that endorses (like or prefer) each of the items in the inventory. For the Strong-Campbell Interest

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Table of contents

  • Title Page i
  • Contents iii
  • List of Contributors v
  • Introduction: The Assessment of Interests vii
  • References ix
  • 1: Strong Vocational Interest Blank/Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory 1
  • References 27
  • 2: Advances in the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey 31
  • References 52
  • 3: The Self-Directed Search 55
  • References 78
  • 4: New Approaches to the Assessment of Interests 83
  • Introduction 83
  • Acknowledgments 120
  • References 120
  • 5: Special Groups and the Beneficial Use of Vocational Interest Inventories 127
  • References 191
  • Author Index 199
  • Subject Index 205
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