Vocational Interests and Their Relationship to Academic Major Areas at the U.S. Naval Academy. Final Report.

Autor/inn/en	Sands, William A.; Abrahams, Norman M.
Institution	Navy Personnel Research and Development Center, San Diego, CA.
Titel	Vocational Interests and Their Relationship to Academic Major Areas at the U.S. Naval Academy. Final Report.
Quelle	(1977), (71 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Career Counseling; Comparative Analysis; Engineering; Humanities; Institutional Research; Interest Inventories; Mathematics; Military Personnel; Military Schools; Occupational Tests; Officer Personnel; Postsecondary Education; Predictive Validity; Sciences; Social Sciences; Student Interests; Test Construction; Test Validity; Testing Programs; Vocational Interests; Strong Vocational Interest Blank + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Maschinenbau; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Institutionelle Forschung; Interest profile; Interessenprofil; Mathematik; Militärschule; Berufseignungsprüfung; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Science; Wissenschaft; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Studieninteresse; Testaufbau; Testvalidität; Berufsinteresse
Abstract	Interest scales designed to provide educational and vocational guidance to midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy were developed from the Strong Vocational Interest Blank. Three of the scales provided an index of similarity between a person's interests and the interests of previous graduates from each of the Academy's three academic areas: Engineering-Weapons, Mathematics-Science, and Humanities-Social Science. A fourth scale, the Applied-Science scale, was designed to distinguish the Engineering-Weapons majors from the Mathematics-Science students. These scales would also be used to satisfy the Navy's requirements for particular numbers of commissioned officers trained in each of the three broad areas. The four scales were cross-validated, and the validity of each scale was found to be significant. Four alternative strategies for utilizing the scales were discussed. When these strategies were compared with the probable scale results that would occur by chance, all four strategies were found to significantly improve upon the chance results. (Author/GDC)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC