Anne M. Collins

The accuracy of self-administration and scoring on Holland's Self-Directed Search

Abstract This study assesed the extent to which S s commit various types of errors when completing Hollands Self-Directed Search (SDS) entirely on their own. Nearly all S s made some type of error and approximately half of the S s made errors which affected their final three-letter summary codes. Almost one-fifth of the S s made errors resulting in an incorrect high-point code. Whether or not S s made errors that affected their summary codes was unrelated to the extent to which they were interested in knowing more about occupations or academic majors they might like. Neither were such errors related to whether S s felt the occupations suggested by their summary codes seemed reasonable. Only slightly over one-third the S s actually did feel that the occupations seemed reasonable.