Deck 16: Interest Testing

Question 1

The Strong Interest Inventory reports scores via

A) age norms
B) grade norms
C) profiles
D) percentile ranks

Answer 1

C

Question 2

A forced-choice, ipsative format is employed by the

A) Strong Interest Inventory
B) Career Assessment Inventory
C) Kuder Occupational Interest Survey
D) none of the above

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The Vocational Interest Estimate Scales of the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey are similar to

A) Holland's system of six themes
B) the general occupational theme scales of the Strong Interest Inventory
C) both a and b
D) neither a nor b

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The most popular solution to the issue of sex bias in measurement of interests is

A) to develop both male and female criterion groups for each occupation
B) to simply compare both sexes to a combined group of men and women
C) to avoid sampling those occupations in which men or women are disproportionately represented
D) none of the above

Question 5

All of the following are scales on the Strong Interest Inventory EXCEPT

A) General Occupational Theme Scales
B) Personal Style Scales
C) Basic Interest Scales
D) Behavior Pattern Scales

Question 6

The existence of six areas of vocational interest is represented on the Strong Interest Inventory by the

A) General Occupational Theme Scales
B) Basic Interest Scales
C) Holland-Hexagon Scales
D) Big Six Scales

Question 7

Validity of the Strong Interest Inventory has been assessed by _______ methods.

A) concurrent and content
B) concurrent and predictive
C) predictive and content
D) content and face

Question 8

During construction of the original Strong Interest Inventory, items were chosen for inclusion on the test if they

A) differentiated the interests of occupational groups from those of the general reference group
B) were strongly preferred by both the occupational group and the general reference group
C) were rarely liked by both the occupational group and the general reference group
D) fit Strong's theory of occupational interests

Question 9

The most researched scales of the Strong Interest Inventory are the

A) Basic Interest Scales
B) General Occupational Theme Scales
C) Personal Style Scales
D) Occupational Scales

Question 10

Test-retest reliabilities for the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey over a two-week interval are

A) typically 1.0
B) typically above .90
C) typically below .90
D) not appropriate reliability measures for this test

Question 11

The Administrative Indices of the Strong Interest Inventory indicate

A) how many items were accurately read by the scoring machine
B) the number of infrequent responses marked on the test
C) the percentages of "like," "indifferent," and "dislike" responses
D) all of the above

Question 12

The scale on the Strong Interest Inventory that differentiates people who like substantial interpersonal contact in their work from those who prefer work with data,
Ideas, and things is the

A) Learning Environment Scale
B) Introversion-Extroversion Scale
C) Work Style Scale
D) Leadership Style Scale

Question 13

Comparing the Career Assessment Inventory to other interest inventories provides evidence of

A) concurrent validity
B) predictive validity
C) content validity
D) construct validity

Question 14

Interests for those people considering occupations not requiring a four-year college degree can be assessed by using the

A) Career Assessment Inventory
B) Strong Interest Inventory
C) Kuder Occupational Interest Inventory
D) Jackson Vocational Interest Survey

Question 15

The Strong Interest Inventory provides specific information about the likes and dislikes of the respondent via the

A) Basic Interest Scales
B) Occupational Scales
C) General Occupational Theme Scales
D) Personal Style Scales

Question 16

The Strong Interest Inventory can provide information about whether an examinee's interests are similar to those of people who persist in formal academic settings through the

A) Learning Environment Scale
B) Basic Interest Scale
C) Work Style Scale
D) Risk Taking/Adventure Scale

Question 17

Developments in interest measurement can be traced to the work of

A) Dale Carnegie
B) Edward Strong
C) Karl Culdary
D) Steven Campbell

Question 18

The first interest inventory developed by Strong was called the

A) Strong Interest Inventory
B) Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
C) Strong Vocational Interest Blank
D) Strong-Campbell Interest Blank

Question 19

A desirable feature of the Occupational Scales of the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey is

A) a narrower spectrum of the world-of-work than those of the Strong
B) a wider spectrum of the world-of-work than those of the Strong
C) the easier interpretability than those of the Strong
D) the applicability of the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey to fewer socioeconomic classes

Question 20

The _________ is most often used as an aid in educational planning at the junior college, vocational-technical school, and high school levels.

A) Strong Interest Inventory
B) Kuder Occupational Interest Inventory
C) Career Assessment Inventory
D) Jackson Vocational Interest Survey

Question 21

Because scores on the Jackson Vocational Interest Survey do not change much over short periods of time, some degree of _____ exists.

A) reliability
B) construct validity
C) concurrent validity
D) all of the above

Question 22

A rational approach based on research and theory led to the development of the

A) Strong Interest Inventory
B) Kuder Occupational Interest Survey
C) Career Assessment Inventory
D) Jackson Vocational Interest Survey