Nebraska Career Information System Career Assessments and Interest Inventories
- From: Kassandra L Hill <khill2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 09:12:38 -0500
Good Morning,
Hope all is going as smoothly as possible during the end-of-the-year
activities.
Have learned about statements are being made by NDE staff about the
quality of the career assessments and inventories in computer-based
systems other than the Nebraska Career Management System. I want to
reassure users that the quality of the instruments in CIS is as high as
possibly can be.
The most commonly used career assessments and inventories link
characteristics such as skills and abilities, knowledge, and traits of
work or workers to occupations and clusters. They are not set up to
measure anything other than the weight or value of the link. As a result,
determining validity is challenging. One of the methods commonly used to
test validity is to compare individual results from one instrument to
another instrument, such as comparing the results from the Self-Directed
Search to O*NET Interest Profiler.
In the development of the O*NET Interest Profiler, Work Importance
Locator, IDEAS, New Occupation Sort, and SKILLS, authors used several
methods to evaluate the reliability and validity of the instruments: item
and scale analyses, item intercorrelations, cluster analyses, test-retest,
and comparison of results from two assessments. The results showed that
these inventories and assessments are valid and reliable.
Many of you use other assessments and inventories. The creators of the
most commonly used instrumentsâASVAB, COPS, and PLANâhave also directed
considerable resources to establishing their reliability and validity. If
you are looking for more information about these instruments, go to CIS
for Internet and then to Assessment Link. The Overview includes the
website for the developer/owner.
The handbooks for O*NET Interest Profiler, Work Importance Locator, and
SKILLS will soon be available on the NCIS website (http://ncis.unl.edu)
and, this fall, in Additional Resources, Quick Starts/Reference Guides on
CIS for Internet. For information about IDEAS, please, contact the NCIS
for a hard copy of the handbook. National Computer Systems does not
provide electronic versions of their handbooks.
Please, if you have questions or concerns about the career assessments and
inventories used by NCIS, contact me. Be assured you are using some of
the most reliable and valid career inventories and assessments that are
available.
Thank you for the work you do with career education and planning. Your
work is appreciated.
LeeAnn
Nebraska Career Information System
421 Nebraska Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0552
402-472-5507
khill2@xxxxxxx
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