N = 3,608), were conducted to assess Interest-Finder content-, construct-, and criterion-related evidence of validity. Results showed that the Interest-Finder (a) is composed of six factors, with each factor representing one RIASEC domain, (b) has a hexagonal shape, (c) has substantial relationships with the Strong Interest Inventory (SII;Hansen & Campbell, 1985), (d) can predict certain high school courses taken by students, and (e) can predict certain types of career choices made by high school students. The Interest-Finder is an exceptionally promising instrument with very high levels of reliability and validity.The primary purpose of this article is to provide content-, construct-, and criterion-related evidence for the validity of the Interest-Finder as a measure of career and vocational interests. The Interest-Finder is a 240-item measure, based on Holland's (1985a) well-accepted vocational personality theory, that is designed to help students identify their career interests. It accomplishes this task by identifying students' interests in the six areas advanced in Holland's RIASEC theory: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. Each of the six 40-item scales is further subdivided into three sections: an activities section that contains 14 items, a training section that contains 12 items, and an occupations section that contains 14 items. For each of these items, respondents indicate their preference in a dichotomously scored like-dislike format.Developed over a 4-year period, the Interest-Finder was designed to replace
A new ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) 18/19 Career Exploration Program was made available to United States secondary and postsecondary schools in July 1992. The program allows individual students to use their aptitude test results, an inventory of their interests, and personal preferences to identify occupations with characteristics that seem to be consistent with their own. This capability of matching student characteristics to occupations is derived from extensive analyses based on work performed by the U.S. Departments of Labor and Defense.
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