Deck 11: Assessment in Career Counseling

Question 1

​Examining how clients spent their time and their preferred activities is a way to identify _____________ interests; asking clients about their interests helps to identify their _____________ interests.

A)​covert; overt
B)​indirect; direct
C)​strong; weak
D)​manifest; expressed

Answer 1

D

Question 2

​Which of the following instruments is easy to use and can be self-scored by the client?

A)​Career Assessment Inventory (CAI)
B)​Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (KOIS)
C)​Self-Directed Search (SDS)
D)​Strong Interest Inventory (SII)

Answer 2

C

Question 3

​One of the strengths of the Strong Interest Inventory is it:

A)​was initially designed for use with individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds.
B)​compares the individual's interests to the interests of individuals working in different occupations.
C)​incorporates values and skills assessment in its assessment of career interests.
D)​can be scored and interpreted by the client very easily and quickly.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

​One of the reasons interests are assessed in career counseling is because interests are a good predictor of:

A)​occupational success.
B)​job satisfaction.
C)​career direction and occupational choice.
D)​job effectiveness.

Question 5

​What makes the Jackson Vocational Interest Survey (JVIS)unique is that it:

A)​can be used with young children.
B)​is a relatively short survey.
C)​is one of the oldest vocational interest surveys still in use.
D)​measures preferences in both work styles and work roles.

Question 6

​Aptitude tests are often used in career counseling because they are good predictors of:

A)​occupational success.
B)​job satisfaction.
C)​career direction and occupational choice.
D)​career interests.

Question 7

​Research indicates that computer-assisted career guidance systems are:

A)​quite comprehensive and require little additional counseling.
B)​more effective when they are used in conjunction with counseling.
C)​more reliable and valid than paper-and-pencil inventories.
D)​effective with adults but should not be used with adolescents.

Question 8

​The most widely-researched career counseling instrument is the:

A)​Career Assessment Inventory (CAI).
B)​Jackson Vocational Interest Survey (JVIS).
C)​Kuder General Interest Inventory (KGIS).
D)​Strong Interest Inventory.

Question 9

​Work values are highly correlated with:

A)​occupational success.
B)​work satisfaction.
C)​career direction and occupational choice.
D)​career decision making.

Question 10

​Pope (2009)recommends that the O*NET Interest Profiler may be used with each of the following groups except:

A)​elementary students.
B)​junior high students.
C)​high school students.
D)​adults.

Question 11

​An instrument that incorporates self-estimates of abilities is the:

A)​Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Test Battery (ASVAB).
B)​O*NET Ability Profiler.
C)​Differential Aptitude Test (DAT).
D)​Campbell Interest and Skills Survey (CISS).

Question 12

​One recent revision made to the Strong Interest Inventory was:

A)​the addition of more items to improve its reliability.
B)​the inclusion of nonprofessional in addition to professional occupations.
C)​the inclusion of teacher, parent and self-report forms.
D)​the addition of the Work Styles subscale to the Personal Styles Scales.

Question 13

​When interpreting a client's Strong Interest Inventory, the counselor should:

A)​focus on the Occupational Scales because they are the most reliable.
B)​move from general interests to more specific interests (e.g., certain occupations).
C)​provide the profile to the client and answer any questions that might arise.
D)​start with the Occupational Scales and then move to the General Occupational Scales.

Question 14

​Which of the following would be considered best practice when assessing the interests of a client with a severe reading disability?

A)​Read the interest inventory to the client
B)​Consider using a pictorial instrument such as the Wide Range Interest-Opinion Test
C)​Have the client ask questions about any item he or she does not understand
D)​Do not assess interest

Question 15

​The Strong Interest Inventory assesses:

A)​what clients are good at.
B)​the types of jobs in which clients might be successful.
C)​clients' likes and interests.
D)​clients' job effectiveness.

Question 16

​Many career counselors trace the origins of career assessment back to:

A)​Frank Parsons.
B)​Donald Super.
C)​Alfred Binet.
D)​David Wechsler.

Question 17

​Which of the following is an advantage of using an interest inventory?

A)​They are less expensive to use than other methods of identifying interests.
B)​They often connect clients' general interest areas to specific occupations.
C)​Interest inventories are a better predictor than expressed interest of occupational choice.
D)​Interest inventories are the best predictor of occupational success.

Question 18

​The most appropriate interest inventory for a young adult not interested in a college education would be the:

A)​Strong Interest Inventory (SII).
B)​Career Assessment Inventory-Vocational Version (CAI-VV).
C)​Technical-Trade Interest Inventory (TTII).
D)​O*NET Ability Profiler.

Question 19

​Whose theory has had a significant influence on the General Occupational Themes of the Strong interest inventory?

A)​John Holland's
B)​Donald Super's
C)​John Krumboltz's
D)​Anne Roe's

Question 20

​The Personal Styles scales of the Strong Interest Inventory:

A)​are validity checks of the profile.
B)​indicate personality styles using Holland's six personality types.
C)​are a subdivision of the six General Occupational Scales.
D)​measure preferences in working, learning, leading, making decisions, and participating on teams

Question 21

In conducting career counseling and assessment with a client, why is it important to gather information from other sources and verify test results with the client? Can you think of an example where not doing this could lead to erroneous conclusions and be detrimental to the client?

Question 22

​What are some of the dangers you see related to online career counseling websites?

Question 23

​If a counselor is interested in measuring clients' levels of career indecision, then he or she might use the:

A)​Career Decision Scale.
B)​Indecisiveness Scale.
C)​Career Assessment Inventory.
D)​Adult Career Concerns Inventory.

Question 24

What are some examples of possible gender differences in self-efficacy? How would you distinguish/define the difference between self-estimates and self-efficacy?

Question 25

​One strategy that may help to facilitate the integration of interests, abilities and values assessment is:

A)​cumulative assessment.
B)​progressive assessment.
C)​fixed-interval assessment.
D)​portfolio assessment.

Question 26

​Recent research on the interests of minority clients indicates that:

A)​African-American clients' interest structure is more complex than other groups' interest structure.
B)​Holland's taxonomy should never be used with minority clients.
C)​Asian-Americans' interest structure involves four dimensions.
D)​individuals from diverse ethnic groups use the same cognitive map or structure of preference.

Question 27

​Interest inventories:

A)​are designed so that gender-role stereotyping is eliminated.
B)​been found to be appropriate for adults but should not be used with adolescents.
C)​have historically yielded different results for men and women.
D)​should never be used with minority clients.

Question 28

Would anything change about the manner in which you interpreted test results for different individuals? What would influence your confidence in the accuracy of your conclusions in each case?​

Question 29

​Which of the following does NOT apply to client-counselor interaction in the context of qualitative career assessment?

A)​Authoring a coherent, continuous, and credible career story
B)​Identifying themes and tensions within the story lines and attributing meaning to those concepts
C)​Developing a narrative or plan to learn the skills needed to perform the next episode in the story
D)​Incorporating the use of computer-assisted career guidance systems to help integrate the assessment results

Question 30

It is recommended that counselor's consider self-efficacy beliefs. What are self-efficacy beliefs? Why are self-efficacy beliefs important to take into consideration for career counseling?