measurement in counseling research: a review

Career-intervention outcome: What contributes to client gain?

“…Many instruments were authorconstructed with little or no information concerning the rationale underlying their construction or the details of their development. As has been noted elsewhere (Oliver, 1979;Zytowski & Betz, 1972), reliability and validity data were rarely reported.…”

The Multidimensional Assessment of Career Decision Problems: The Career Decision Diagnostic Assessment

“…The fundamental question of this study was "Are Bansberg and Sklare's ( 1986) reliability and validity results replicable with a different sample?" The importance of replication with different samples in the assessment of the reliability and validity for career counseling diagnostic instruments has been emphasized by Oliver (1979) and Zytowski and Betz (1972). This study also sought to provide the following new information about the CDDA:…”

A Review of the Correlates and Measurements of Career Indecision

“…Fifteen years ago, Zytowski and Betz (1972) stated that counseling research should not be published without &dquo;some minimal indications of the reliability and validity of the instrument on which the research was based (p. 78).&dquo; An examination of the assessment devices used in measuring career indecision demonstrates that few have heeded their advice. A few measures, fortunately, appear to be quite good.…”