Cognitive and Psychosocial Characteristics upon Entry into Teacher Training: Are Teacher Candidates Underestimated?In public debate on the teaching profession, it is sometimes suggested that people who choose to become teachers have unfavorable cognitive ...
Vocational Interests and the Transition to the Thematic Profiles of Upper Secondary School: Their Structure and Utility for Predicting Educational ChoicesThis paper investigates the role that vocational interests conceptualized by Holland (1997) play ...
Interest congruence and the experience of academic studiesAbstract. According to the congruence hypothesis of John Holland's theory of vocational interests, the fit between a person's vocational interests and his or her work environment has an impact on ...
Vocational interest inventories - Cons in the use of gender-specific normsAbstract. Vocational interest inventories are mainly used for career counseling procedures. In the assessment of interest profiles, usually, gender and nongender related norms are ...
Are German interest inventories gender-fair?–A qualitative analysisThe gender fairness of 15 German interest inventories was assessed using the guidelines established by the National Institute of Education (NIE). For each inventory, the inventory itself, ...
Abstract. Vocational interest characteristics – interest congruence, interest differentiation, and general interest level (elevation) – are useful indicators for career development. However, research on these issues has primarily focused on adolescents in ...
Review of the revised General Interest Structure Test and Environmental Structure TestAbstract. The revised General Interest Structure Test and Environmental Structure Test (revidierter Allgemeiner Interessen-Struktur-Test mit Umwelt-Struktur-Test; AIST-...