The Career Assessment Inventory takes individual’s workplace interests with other individuals currently in one of the 111 careers in their database. The instrument help college-bound and non-college bond people find a job geared towards their interests.
There are currently two version of the CAI – The Enhanced Version and the Vocational Version. The Vocational version targets careers which less than two year of post-secondary training are necessary.
The Enhanced Version includes a 370-item report using a 5-point scale for responses. Testing takes 35 to 40 minutes to complete and is done online or paper-pencil format.
Author
Charles B. Johansson
Where to Purchase
http://www.pearsonassessments.com/caie.aspx
http://www.dantes.doded.mil/dantes_web/distribution/guide2.htm#CAI
http://www.octs.net/assess/career.html
http://www.psychtest.com/curr01/CATLG002.HTM
Reliability and Validity
The Career Assessment Inventory is well know and well established instrument, used as a norm for many in searching for careers. Test-retest correlation ranged from 0.91 to 0.96 for the general theme scales; 0.88 to 0.95 for the basic interest scale; 0.81 to 0.96 for the occupational scales (Zarrella & Schuerger, 1990). An internal consistency coefficient between 0.89 and 0.92 supports high content validity. The CAI is strongly like with the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory, the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey, and Jackson Vocational Interest Survey. There is only one study available concerning the application of the CAI.
References
Jagger, L., Neukrug, E., & McAuliffe, G. (1992). Congruence between personality traits and chosen occupation as a predictor of job satisfaction for people with disabilities, Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 36, 53-60.
Zarrella, K.L., &Schuerger, J.M. (1990). Temporal stability of occupational interest inventories Psychological Reports,66, 1067-1074.
Dissertations and Journals
Naylor, Frank D., Kidd, Garry J. (1991). The Predictive Validity of the Investigative Scale of the Career Assessment Inventory. Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 51, No.1, 217-226.
Niles, Spencer G. Using Super’s Career Development Assessment and Counseling (C-DAC) Model to Link Theory to Practice. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance.
Dik, Bryan, Hansen, Jo-Ida, Sullivan, Brandon, Using The Strong Interest Inventory With Adult Clients In An Integrated Model of Career Counseling. Career Planning and Adult Development Network.
Elosua, Paul (2007). Assessing vocational interests in the Basque Country using paired comparison design. University of the Basque Country.
