Deck 12: Career and Vocational Assessment

Question 1

What was the first test to measure vocational development?

A)Career Maturity Inventory-Form C
B)Test of Career Development
C)Career Maturity Inventory-Revised
D)Adult Maturity Scale

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What inventory measures career planning,career exploration,decision making,knowledge of the world of work,and knowledge of preferred occupation?

A)Adult Career Concerns Inventory
B)Career Development Inventory
C)O*NET Ability Profiler
D)Career Maturity Inventory-Revised

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following is an example of a multiaptitude test?

A)Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Test
B)Strong Interest Inventory
C)Super's Work Values Inventory
D)All of the above

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What was the purpose of the Student Vocational Self-Analysis?

A)To determine what college major would be most appropriate for high school students
B)To determine potential career paths for 10^th grade students
C)To determine potential career paths for undergraduate students
D)To determine course scheduling for students in grades 9 through 11

Question 5

What Strong Interest Inventory Scale measures how similar an individual's interests are to those of people of the same gender who are working in and are satisfied with their occupation?

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

Question 6

The trait-and-factor theory consists of all of the following elements except:

A)Matching knowledge of the self and jobs
B)Knowledge of jobs
C)Knowledge of educational requirements of various careers
D)Knowledge of one's own attitudes,abilities,and interests

Question 7

________aptitude tests focus on one aspect of ability and are used to determine how well a person might perform in a particular profession or likelihood of success in a specific vocation.

A)Single
B)Individual
C)Specific
D)Multiple

Question 8

Which is more highly correlated with job satisfaction?

A)Level of training
B)Interests
C)Salary
D)Values

Question 9

________ did not believe interest inventories should categorize people by stereotypical prototypes,but rather by matching people to other people who were satisfied and enthusiastic about their work and scored the same on the interest inventory.

A)Holland
B)Kuder
C)Thurstone
D)Parsons

Question 10

Why does the Jackson Vocational Interest Inventory appeal to many individuals?

A)It provides more thorough reports compared to other inventories
B)It assesses confidence level in addition to interests and values
C)It is inexpensive and can be completed online
D)Format of the inventory is clear and easy to read

Question 11

_____________ inventories measure values besides those associated with job success.

A)Life values
B)General values
C)Interest
D)Work-related values

Question 12

What Strong Interest Inventory Scale measures six categories of interest based on Holland's theory?

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

Question 13

What Strong Interest Inventory Scale measures interests in 30 broad areas related to the GOTs?

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

Question 14

What career assessment provided the foundation for current career assessment measures?

A)Carnegie Interest Inventory
B)An Interest Schedule
C)Storm Vocational Interest Blank
D)Student Vocational Self-Analysis

Question 15

What Strong Interest Inventory Scale measures comfort level in a variety of activities,such as leadership style and learning environment?

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

Question 16

What is the Occupations Finder?

A)A subspecialty of career counseling
B)A classification system of common occupations in the world
C)A classification system of common occupations in the U.S.
D)A commonly used career interest inventory

Question 17

What career assessment was the first to integrate psychology theory?

A)Carnegie Interest Inventory
B)An Interest Schedule
C)Storm Vocational Interest Blank
D)Student Vocational Self-Analysis

Question 18

Educational institutions and hiring departments use what type of assessment as part of a screening process?

A)Interest inventories
B)Specific aptitude tests
C)Value inventories
D)Ability tests

Question 19

Who is career assessment often traced back to?

A)Parsons
B)Frankl
C)Minor
D)Thurstone

Question 20

Jobs within Job Zone 5 on the O*NET Work Importance Profiler require:

A)Little or no preparation
B)Some preparation
C)Considerable preparation
D)Extensive preparation

Question 21

_________ is a career classification system listing over 800 different careers provided by occupational analysts.

Question 22

The _________ Inventory measures an individual's student,leisurite,citizen,worker,and homemaker roles.

Question 23

When it comes to assessment in terms of career development,counselors assess both the _________ and __________.

Question 24

__________'s theory proposed that an individual's employment selection was a product of his or her personality.

Question 25

The Adult Career Concerns Inventory evolved from ____________.

Question 26

_______________ is defined as attitudinal and cognitive readiness to make decisions about one's vocational and/or educational choices

Question 27

John H.Holland believed that people could be categorized into one of six personality types.List the six personality types and give a brief description of each.

Question 28

The ________________is a graphic display showing how roles may vary during a person's lifetime.

Question 29

Describe instances in which you might conduct a career assessment or work with a client on career-related issues.Provide examples.

Question 30

___________ are defined as the activities within which people expect to attain their values and thus satisfy their needs.

Question 31

Describe Super's model of career choice readiness and the career choice competency measure that was developed based on this model.