Validity of diverse procedures for reporting interest scores: An analysis of longitudinal data.

Counseling Psychology: Career Interventions, Research, and Theory

“…Prediger and his colleagues , Hanson et al 1977 continue to demonstrate that inventories with more versus less balanced items usually have similar concurrent and predictive validities. No direct tests of the infl uence of these versions have been performed.…”

“…In a similar 4-year longitudinal analysis, Hanson et al (1977), using the ACT Interest Inven tory, obtained hit rates of between 33% and 44% for another sample of 4419 college students. Related investigations by , O'Neil et al (1978a), , and Wiggins & Wes lander (1977) provide similar hit rates for other inventories.…”

Negative: The MBTI: Not Ready for Routine Use in Counseling

“…It is well known that one needs to correct for restrictive socialization in inventories suggesting appropriate career direction by providing same-sex norms, lest the inventory unnecessarily perpetuate past discrimination (Hanson, Noeth, & Prediger, 1978). But the MBTI does not appear to have such safeguards.…”

A Review of the COPS Interest Inventory

“…The interpretive booklet guides the respondent in converting the raw score to a normed referenced score. This is a most desirable feature because Hanson, Noeth, and Prediger (1977) pointed out the problems that may arise from using raw scores from inventories such as the Self-Directed Search (SDS) (Holland, 1985). (The SDS, of course, does not provide respondent tables for converting raw scores to norm referenced scores.…”