The Construct Validity of Scores on the Career Beliefs Inventory.

Autor/inn/en	Walsh, Beverly Dolenz; Thompson, Bruce
Titel	The Construct Validity of Scores on the Career Beliefs Inventory.
Quelle	(1995), (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adults; Beliefs; Career Choice; Career Counseling; Construct Validity; Factor Analysis; Higher Education; Psychometrics; Scores; Test Construction; Test Results; Test Use; Undergraduate Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Belief; Glaube; Faktorenanalyse; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Testaufbau; Testanwendung
Abstract	Making a career choice can be one of the most important decisions in a person's life. Instruments recently developed for use in career counseling have placed an increased emphasis on evaluating career-related beliefs. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric characteristics of "Career Beliefs Inventory" scores in terms of construct validity. Factor analysis was the primary vehicle for this exploration. Two independent samples of data (251 undergraduates and 1,788 adults from the national standardization sample) were analyzed using confirmatory factor first-order and exploratory second-order factor analysis. Although the instrument has promise as a measure for use in career counseling or research regarding career choice, these analyses did not support a conclusion that its scores were valid. Confirmatory tests of theoretical models did not fit well, and results of the exploratory second-order analyses did not reproduce the previously reported exploratory factor analytic results. Nevertheless, replicable constructs were isolated across the two samples. (Contains 4 tables and 34 references.) (Author/SLD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC