Concurrent and predictive validity of career development inventory

Abstract

After an overview of the situation m vocauonal guidance for Quebec young people, we present the results of a study of the predlCtave validity of the Career Development Inventory adapted for French schools m Quebec This study demonstrates that the instrument could be used to predict student perseverance and sat~sfactaon m their professional choices We then present the results of a second study which venfied the concurrent validity of the Career Development Inventory by companng the results obtmned using this instrument with those obtained using the Career Education Questtonnatre wtth the same students

Six Approaches to the Assessment of Career Maturity

“…Comparable coefficients existed for the college/university form (Super et al, 1992). DuPont (1992) reported that the internal consistencies of each scale ranged from .81 to .89 with a median of .87. At all levels, the reliabilities of the Career Development Attitude Scale and the Career Development Knowledge Scale have been higher than .75, whereas the Career Orientation Total reliability coefficients were .85 and higher (Super et al, 1992).…”

The Career Development Inventory in Review: Psychometric and Research Findings

“…Further concurrent evidence for the validity of the CDI comes from a study by Dupont (1992). She administered the CDI and the Career Education Questionnaire (CEQ; Dupont & Gingras, 1989) to a sample of 109 graduating high school students.…”

“…Dupont (1992) administered the first four scales of the CDI to 365 graduating high school seniors in Quebec (159 girls, 134 boys) at the time they made their postsecondary school choices. One year later, she telephoned 331 of those graduates to ascertain their satisfaction with their choices.…”