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ERIC Number: EJ565863
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1644
Differentiation as Fundamental Validity for Criterion-Group Scaled Interest Inventories.
Kuder, Frederic; Diamond, Esther E.; Zytowski, Donald G.
Educational and Psychological Measurement, v58 n1 p38-41 Feb 1998
Predictive validity, generally taken to be the prime validity that occupationally normed interest inventories should demonstrate, is dependent on the capacity of an instrument to differentiate between occupations. A comparison of two methods of differentiation shows that a method using proportions of each occupational group to assign item-scoring weights is superior. (SLD)
Descriptors: Interest Inventories, Occupational Tests, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity, Scoring, Test Items
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Differentiation; Weighting (Statistical)