| Abstract: | What is the relationship between vocational interests and occupational proficiency? Based on a study of shorthand skill involving 1100 female students, the data were subjected to statistical tests of significance and the linear regression predictive technique for cross-validation purposes. Tests employed included an interest inventory, a shorthand proficiency test, and an intelligence test plus a scale constructed to differentiate responses of superior and inferior criterion groups. The latter "worked": "Members of an occupational group can be classified on the basis of interests, with respect to quality of occupational performance." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved) |
