John Holland's Self-Directed Search-Form E (SDS-E) is a vocational personality assessment instrument based upon the well-known Self-Directed Search (SDS) but designed for use with poor readers or children. Virtually no data are available in the professional literature pertaining to the SDS-E. High school students (N=44) in five remedial reading classes completed the SDS-E under standard conditions, i.e, the instrument was self-administered and self-scored. No relationship was found between reading level and Holland type scale scores. Summary codes, used to indicate personality type and occupational environment, were similar to those obtained by high school norm groups on the SDS. However, there was little agreement between stated aspiration and measured vocational personality. An analysis of the errors and irregularities in the students' performance on the SDS-E suggested that the discrepancy was a function not of reading deficiency but rather of a greatly restricted view of the occupational world. (Author/WAS)