Vocational Guidance
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Fitting measurement models to vocational interest data: are dominance models ideal?

30 Aug 2009 In this study, the authors examined the item response process underlying 3 vocational interest inventories: the Occupational Preference Inventory (C.-P. Deng, P. I. Armstrong, & J. Rounds, 2007), the Interest Profiler (J. Rounds, T. Smith, L. ... Read more...

Stagnant perceptions of nursing among high school students: results of a shadowing intervention study.

29 Jun 2009 To gain insight into high school students' perceptions of the role of the nurse and to explore students' impressions of nursing following a nurse-shadowing intervention. Often nurses abandon staffing positions in the first 1-2 years, reporting a ... Read more...

Depth-of-processing effects as college students use academic advising Web sites.

30 May 2009 This research examined students' cognitive and affective responses to an academic advising Web site. Specifically, we investigated whether exposure to our Web site increased student reports that they would access university Web sites to obtain ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Vocational Guidance'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Fitting measurement models to vocational interest data: are dominance models ideal? 30 Aug 2009
• Stagnant perceptions of nursing among high school students: results of a shadowing intervention study. 29 Jun 2009
• Depth-of-processing effects as college students use academic advising Web sites. 30 May 2009
• Secondary special educators' transition involvement. 30 May 2009
• Career guidance: how do we inspire students and young doctors to careers in paediatrics and child health? 30 May 2009
• [Predicting the success of occupational retraining using the occupational aptitude test battery] 15 Apr 2009
• Effects of changes in the pre-licensure education of health workers on health-worker supply. 13 Apr 2009
• Coaching. Down to the crossroads. 10 Mar 2009
• Coaching and career transition for the nursing professional. 27 Feb 2009
• Comparison of a video-based assessment and a multiple stimulus assessment to identify preferred jobs for individuals with significant intellectual disabilities. 21 Feb 2009
• A crisis of confidence. 3 Feb 2009
• Enhancing the empowerment of youth in foster care: supportive services. 30 Dec 2008
• Health care professions: career information on the internet for students. 30 Dec 2008
• Screening for learning disabilities in young adult career counseling. 30 Dec 2008
• Connecting with guidance counselors to enhance recruitment into nursing of minority teens. 30 Oct 2008
• Women in medicine: there is no Hogwarts Sorting Hat for female fellow physicians. 30 Oct 2008
• [Career counselling and choice of speciality] 25 Oct 2008
• Training the clinician investigator. 8 Oct 2008
• Cultivating nursing career connections in K-12 education: a vital force in priming the post-secondary nursing education pipeline. 30 Aug 2008
• Adult student satisfaction in an accelerated RN-to-BSN program: a follow-up study. 30 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Vocational Guidance'

Definition: Systematic efforts to assist individuals in selecting an occupation or suitable employment on the basis of aptitude, education, etc.

Descriptor UI: D014830

Alternative terms: Vocational Guidance; Guidance, Vocational; Career Counseling; Counseling, Career;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.784.629.937; F02.784.692.887;

Technical Notes: consider also APTITUDE or APTITUDE TESTS