Career Development Over the High School Years

Career Maturity Inventory Interpretations for Grade 9 Boys and Girls

“…For example, girls readily grasp tentative goals that broaden range and level of potential careers (Harris, 1974), but the assumption of responsibility for their real choices as adults still reflects a premature closure in favor of traditional careers (Herr & Cramer, 1979;Newman, 1979). Perhaps, as Noeth and Prediger (1978) found, "With respect to career planning, knowing is not necessarily accompanied by doing" (p. 252).…”

Career Counseling for High School Students, Grades 10–12

“…In an elaborate and well-controlled study, Noeth and Prediger (1978) investigated career development over the high school years by assessing both the cognitive and behavioral components of career development; in addition, longitudinal data from four high schools were analyzed in conjunction with cross-sectional data from three nationally representative samples. The study provided further evidence that career development systematically increases with age during the high school years.…”

“…cation usually associated with various occupations. Results of the Noeth and Prediger ( 1978) study revealed that career planning involvement (e.g., discussingjobs with parents, talking with workers in certain jobs, attending a job fair, taking a tour of a local business) is a major component of career development.…”

“…It seems only natural to expect the level of career development to go up systematically with age during the high school years (Noeth & Prediger, 1978). Jepsen (1975) found that senior boys had more complex data search strategies and more elaborate rationales supporting vocational choices than they had in the ninth grade.…”

Relationships Among Work Values and Job Knowledge

“…Although the knowledge of self derived from clarifying work values is an integral aspect of career choice, a knowledge of occupational alternatives (job knowledge) is equally important (Loesch, 1977b). Noeth and Prediger (1978), Rich (1979), and Loesch and Sampson (1978), among others, consider the acquisition of job knowledge to be a major component of career decision making. Despite the importance of this factor, a study assessing the career development status and needs of U.S. youth by Noeth, Roth, and Prediger (1975, p. 216) found that "many students may be making career decisions with the aid of only a limited knowledge of the world of work."…”