Assessments

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Assessments
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• Why do assessments? (Zunker ch. 6)
• Identify career beliefs (various ex.)
• Identify skills, proficiencies, and abilities
  (ch. 6 exercises)
• Identify academic achievement

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• Identify and confirm interest levels (card
  sorts)
• Discover personality variables (MBTI)
• Determine values (ch. 7 exercises)
• Explore career maturity variables

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Foundational Theories?

• Super ? Career Maturity
• Brown ? Values
• Holland, Super, Roe ? Personality Variables
• Holland ? Interest inventories

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Reliability

• Dependability
• Consistency
• Get same results repeatedly

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Validity

• Meaningfulness
• Usefulness
• Does it measure what its supposed to measure?

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Issues in Assessment

• Not all groups in normative sample used for
  validity reliability tests
• Is person a member of the group used for
  normative sample?
• Gender, age, race, ethnicity, national origin,
  religion, sexual orientation, language,
  socioeconomic status

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Self-assessments (Zunker ch. 7)

• Accurate self-assessment increases chance of good
  career decisions
• Remember self-knowledge and self-concept in
  theories (what you know/think about yourself)
• Cognitive, situational, and behavioral factors
  all influence career choices
  (Fig. 7-1)

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Self-assessment exercises

• P. 219 Focused questions (Zunker)
• P. 220 Card sorts
• P. 96, 103, 110 3-4, 3-5 (Lock)