An individualized, problem-oriented, self-report of change as a follow-up of a university counseling service.

Using a target-complaint approach, an instrument to evaluate the effectiveness of a counseling service was constructed on which clients stated in their own words, and then rated, the severity of their presenting problem at the initial interview. A follow-up questionnaire allowed a self-report measure of change (as compared to satisfaction) to be constructed which was then used to assess the effectiveness of the counseling service. In general, this procedure was successful and allowed flexibility in data analysis, making it adaptable to different counseling situations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Frederic Kuder (1903-2000).

Memorializes Frederic Kuder, known for his work in developing interest measurements. His early research was chiefly on test construction and statistics, and later he published on the measurement of interests, appropriate instruments to measure interests, and the results of such research. He developed the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey and Kuder Preference Record. The interest inventories were instrumental in the growth of Science Research Associates into a major publisher of tests and instructional products. They eventually grew to 4 distinctly different forms in 7 editions, estimated to have been completed by 100 million persons worldwide. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Validity of other-gender-normed scales on the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey.

Examined whether other-gender-normed scales of the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (KOIS) could be used appropriately in counseling when own-gender-normed scales were unavailable. Based on data from D. G. Zytowski's 1976 study, 99 women and 177 men were found who were engaged in occupations predictable by 1 of the 28 twin scales and who had taken the KOIS from 12 to 19 yrs previously. Their rankings on own- and other-gender-normed scales were found to correlate highly, and the 2 sets of scales were approximately equal in predictive validity. It is concluded that rankings on other-gender-normed scales provided a reasonably accurate estimate of the person's expected rankings on the unavailable own-gender scales. (17 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Reliability of Holland codes across interest measures for adult females.

Derived 8 3-letter codes representing J. L. Holland's (1973) personality types from 3 inventories: the Self-Directed Search, the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (3 types of scales), and the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (4 types of scales) for each of 52 adult women. Comparisons between codes derived from these sources revealed that agreement between any 2 sources of codes was varied. Some pairs agreed to the extent that the 3 letters of the codes were the same although not in the same order; others agreed to the extent that the 1st 2 letters matched 2 from the other. Findings support Holland's injunction to consider all codes that may be derived from the 3 highest ranking types rather than to limit consideration to occupations related to the code in only the order produced by the instrument. (18 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Test Review.

The College Entrance Examination Board sponsors the subject of this review, the Comparative Guidance and Placement Program. Aside from the test booklet and answer sheet, the published materials associated with the Comparative Guidance and Placement Program are as follows: CGP--What it's like, Using your CGP report, CGP--A program for two-year colleges and vocational-technical institutes, CGP Interpretive Manual, and A counselor's guide to CGP. This review discusses the various inputs, outputs, psychometric characteristics, and student use of the Comparative Guidance and Placement Program. After making comments on the Comparative Guidance and Placement Program, the reviewer questions just what the utility of the Comparative Guidance and Placement Program is for the student, and question whether it has any for the college which uses it. The decision to use the program should be made thoughtfully. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Predictive validity of the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey: A 12- to 19-year follow-up.

More than 1,000 men and women were located 12-19 yrs after taking an early form of the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey either in high school or in college. Satisfactory data were available for 882 Ss. 51% were employed at the time of the follow-up in an occupation that would have been suggested to them had their inventory been interpreted to them. This compared favorably with other validity findings for occupationally scaled interest inventories and represented about 90% of the possible validity as derived from concurrent validity figures. College major scales from a high school level administration correctly predicted 55%. Ss in occupations consistent with their early interest profiles did not report greater job satisfaction or success, but did show greater continuance in their occupational career. Better prediction was achieved when the occupation was one named on the profile and when the person had gone to or graduated from college or entered a high-level or scientific-technical occupation. (34 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Comparison of Roe's and Holland's occupational classifications: Diverse ways of knowing.

Compares the processes by which A. Roe (1956) and J. L. Holland (1966) developed their structural representations of occupations. Roe, using almost exclusively nonempirical means, formulated an 8-group circumplex, which is virtually identical to Holland's 6-group hexagonal configuration that resulted from empirical research spanning 11 yrs. The similarity in the 2 resultant classifications is taken as evidence that there are valid diverse methods of arriving at a state of knowledge. (23 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Equivalence of the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey and the Strong Vocational Interest Blank revisited.

Median within-S correlation of scores for a total of 332 Ss on the SVIB and Kuder Occupational Interest Survey was .57, representing an increase in congruent validity from that previously obtained by traditional procedure. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Impact of visual, vocal, and lexical cues on judgments of counselor qualities.

75 female and 55 male undergraduates rated Carl Rogers on a number of counseling-relevant dimensions. Experimental treatment groups received information via the visual, lexical, vocal, or vocal-lexical communication channels; a control, or reference, group received information via the nature visual-vocal-lexical channel. Lexical cue seemed particularly important in creating favorable impressions among females, but results were less clear-cut for males. When experimental Ss were later exposed to visual-vocal-lexical cues in combination (as control Ss had been earlier), they tended to rate Rogers as warmer and less distant than they had earlier on the basis of limited information. In some instances, however, ratings made with additional information were less favorable than those made partial information. (17 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)