Davis, G. (2019). Interest and Aptitudes in Career Assessment: Facilitating Career Decision-Making. Texas Counseling Association Professional Growth Conference, Fort Worth, TX 1 Interest and Aptitudes in Career Assessment: Facilitating Career Decision-Making Texas Counseling Association Professional Growth Conference Greta A. Davis, PhD, LPC-S, NCC, CCC Interests Assessments • Over 100 years of research • Strong Interest Inventory first published in 1927 • Interests predict occupational choice, job satisfaction, whether people stay or leave a job, and how well they perform on the job** • Subjective self-report of interests • Relatively easily to administer and interpret Aptitude Assessments • 80 years of research has informed aptitude assessment development • Thurstone identified “primary mental abilities” • GATB first published in 1947 and ASVAB first published in 1968 • Rooted in military selection and recruitment • Employers use for selection • Timed, standardized, inherently more complicated • Expensive Bias Concerns – Interests • Biased due to gender and sex differences as influenced by society, cultures, and gender norms and exposure (Reynolds & Suzuki, 2013) • Evidence: SII interests consistently show real differences between men and women based on gender (e.g., men favoring R and I and females favoring A and S) which provides ongoing support for gender-based norming and interpretation (Einarsdottir & Rounds, 2009; Fouad, 2002) Bias Concerns – Aptitudes • Biased related to economic, social and educational deprivation • Biased as they have [historically] systematically underrepresent minorities’ true aptitudes or abilities (Reynolds & Suzuki, 2013) • Evidence: YouScience assessment identifies aptitudes more equitably between males and females and different cultural groups (University of Missouri Career Research) Using Both Interest & Aptitudes and Beyond • Understand limitations of normed and standardized assessments • Use them cautiously with appropriate psychometric review vetting • Add measures of personality and strengths • Add informal, qualitative assessments
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