Using Assessment Results for Career Development,9780534367626

Using Assessment Results for Career Development

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Edition: 6th
ISBN13: 9780534367626
ISBN10: 0534367623
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-09-04
Publisher(s): Brooks Cole
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Summary

Useful in both career development and test and measurement courses, this practical workbook illustrates how to use assessment results to increase clients' self-awareness and help them make rational career choices. Readers will find detailed information on applying knowledge of tests and measurements in clinical settings and using assessment results in a wide variety of counseling situations.

Table of Contents

Interpreting Assessment Results
1(11)
Use of Assessment Results
2(4)
Norms
6(1)
Score Profiles
7(1)
Using Holland's Codes for Interpretation
8(1)
One-Shot Counseling
9(1)
Preview of This Book
10(1)
Summary
11(1)
Questions and Exercises
11(1)
A Conceptual Model for Using Assessment Results
12(12)
Rationale
13(1)
Preparing the Counselor for Using Assessment Results
14(1)
A Model for Individual Counseling
14(5)
Using the Model for Individual Counseling: A Case Example
19(3)
Stimulating Career Exploration in Groups
22(1)
Summary
23(1)
Questions and Exercises
23(1)
Some Measurement Concepts
24(7)
Transformation of Scores
24(4)
Accuracy of Measurement
28(1)
Summary
29(1)
Questions and Exercises
30(1)
Using Ability Tests
31(22)
Purpose of Aptitude Tests
31(1)
Identifying Abilities by Holland's Types
32(2)
Differential Aptitude Test (DAT)
34(4)
Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)
38(3)
Multiaptitude Tests: Limitations and Suggestions for Use
41(1)
Other Aptitude Tests
42(1)
Summary
43(1)
Questions and Exercises
44(9)
Using Achievement Tests
53(16)
The Impact of Beliefs on Achievement Scores
53(1)
Types of Achievement Tests
54(1)
Stanford Achievement Test (STAT)
54(4)
Wide Range Achievement Test-Revision 3 (WRAT3)
58(2)
Using Achievement Test Results for Self-Concept and Self-Efficacy Development
60(3)
Suggestions for Career Development
63(1)
Other Achievement Tests
64(1)
Summary
64(1)
Questions and Exercises
64(5)
Using Interest Inventories
69(44)
Sex Bias and Sex Fairness in Interest Assessment
69(2)
Stability of Interests
71(1)
Interpreting Interest Inventories
72(1)
Examples of Interests by Holland's Types
73(1)
Interpreting Flat and Elevated Profiles
73(1)
Strong Interest Inventory (SII)
74(4)
Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (KOIS)
78(7)
Self-Directed Search (SDS)
85(6)
Career Decision Making 2000 (CDM): The Harrington-O'Shea Decision Making System
91(5)
Campbell Interest and Skill Survey (CISS)
96(1)
Suggestions for Career Development
97(2)
Other Interest Inventories
99(2)
Summary
101(1)
Questions and Exercises
101(12)
Using Personality Inventories
113(37)
Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS)
114(4)
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF, Fifth Edition)
118(4)
Personal Career Development Profile (PCDP) and PC\DP Plus
122(9)
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
131(5)
NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO PI-R)
136(2)
Suggestions for Career Development
138(1)
Other Personality Inventories
139(1)
Summary
140(1)
Questions and Exercises
141(9)
Using Value Inventories
150(13)
Minnesota Importance Questionnaire (MIQ)
151(5)
Survey of Interpersonal Values (SIV)
156(2)
The Salience Inventory (SI)
158(1)
Suggestions for Career Development
159(1)
Other Value Inventories
160(1)
Summary
161(1)
Questions and Exercises
161(2)
Using Career Development Inventories
163(23)
Career Maturity Inventory (CMI)
164(1)
Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI)
165(2)
Career Beliefs Inventory (CBI)
167(5)
Career Development Inventory (CDI)
172(2)
Career Decision Scale (CDS)
174(2)
My Vocational Situation (MVS)
176(1)
Career Decision Profile (CDP)
177(2)
Career Factors Inventory (CFI)
179(1)
Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale (CDSE Scale)
179(1)
Other Measures of Career Development for Future Use
180(1)
Summary
181(1)
Questions and Exercises
181(5)
Using Card Sorts in Career Counseling
186(15)
Occupational Card Sorts
186(5)
Occ-U-Sort
191(3)
The Career Values Card Sort Planning Kit
194(2)
Motivated Skills Card Sort Planning Kit
196(2)
Other Commercially Available Card Sorts
198(1)
Summary
198(2)
Questions and Exercises
200(1)
Computer-Assisted Career Guidance (CACG) Assessments
201(18)
Goals of Computer-Assisted Career Guidance Systems
202(1)
Outcomes of Computer-Assisted Career Guidance Systems
203(1)
Client Expectations about Computer-Assisted Career Guidance Systems
204(1)
Using CACG in Counseling
205(1)
SIGI Plus
206(2)
Discover for Colleges and Adults
208(3)
Choices/Choices CT 2000
211(1)
The Career Key
211(3)
Other CACG Systems
214(1)
Summary
214(1)
Questions and Exercises
215(4)
Using Assessment for People with Disabilities and the Academically Disadvantaged
219(27)
Career Research on Specific Disabilities
224(1)
Adult Basic Learning Examination (ABLE)
225(3)
Wide Range Interest-Opinion Test (WRIOT)
228(4)
Transferability of Work Skills
232(1)
Transition to Work Inventory (TWI)
232(3)
Social and Prevocational Information Battery-Revised (SPIB-R)
235(1)
Pictorial Inventory of Careers (PIC)
236(1)
The Reading-Free Vocational Interest Inventory-2 (R-FVII: 2)
237(4)
Other Instruments for People with Disabilities and the Academically Disadvantaged
241(1)
Summary
242(1)
Questions and Exercises
243(3)
Using Nonstandardized Self-Assessment Inventories
246(6)
Five Lives
246(2)
Assessing Interests
248(1)
Ideal Day
249(1)
Career Genogram
249(1)
Holland Party Game
249(1)
Check Lists
250(1)
Summary
250(1)
Questions and Exercises
250(2)
Combining Assessment Results
252(20)
Using a Model for Combining Assessment Results
252(6)
Combining Separate Tests and Inventories
258(7)
Summary
265(1)
Questions and Exercises
266(6)
Appendix A List of Tests and Publishers 272(13)
Appendix B Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education 285(4)
Appendix C Assessment Related Web Sites Including Ethical Standards 289(2)
References 291(16)
Credits 307(4)
Name Index 311(6)
Subject Index 317

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