Occupational aptitude patterns of selected groups of counseled veterans.

The classification of occupations by means of Kuder Interest profiles: I. The development of interest groups.

“…Using rho as an index of profile similarity, the Kuder profiles were intercorrelated. 1 By grouping profiles which intercorrelate .70 or greater, a set of interest groups was derived 1 Profiles were coded by listing the highest scale first with the remaining scales following in descending order. For these computations the outdoor scale was omitted since it was available for only a few occupations.…”

“…Since these inventories have been applied to only a small number of occupations, it is frequently necessary in practice to speculate about the nature of the interests for many occupations. An "unknown" occupation presents at least two problems: (1) What are the characteristic interests of this occupation?, and (2) In what known interest group does this occupation belong?…”

Chapter III: Development and Applications of Tests of Special Aptitude

“…The effectiveness of test data for vocational and educational guidance purposes is one of the most challenging problems in the field of testing. Barnette (6,7) followed up cases of veterans who had completed the VA-sponsored advisement process at the New York City YMCA Vocational Service Center; the 890 replies received from some 1375 questionnaires sent out over a year after the last case was counseled were sorted by occupational field and into "success" and "failure" groups, "success" involving actually beginning the appropriate job, being satisfied with it, and continuing with it. Test scores for these groups were then compared for those in engineering work, salesmen, accountants, and clerical workers, and significant differences noted.…”

Adolescent vocational interests and later occupation.

“…No information of any kind was returned for 28 per cent of the group. 1 This paper is based on a portion of a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the M.A. degree at Western Reserve University by the first-named author and supervised by the second author.…”