An Experiment in the Educational and Vocational Guidance of Tenth-Grade Pupils

Appropriateness-of-vocational-choice as a criterion of counseling outcome.

“…In evaluating the effectiveness of various types of vocational counseling, one of the most popular and apparently straight-forward criteria has been some form of rating of the appropriateness of postcounseling vocational plans. In most cases the stated vocational objective is simply rated by experts on a scale of appropriateness-inappropriateness or realism-irrealism, usually on the basis of interest and/or ability test data, sometimes with the aid of additional background information and/or school records (e.g., Apostal, 1960;Biersdorf, 1958;Bilovsky, McMasters, Shorr, & Singer, 1953, Hewer, 1959Hoyt, 1955;Hutson & Webster, 1943).…”