Barbara A. Kirk

Accuracy of Self-Reported College Grade Averages and Characteristics of Non and Discrepant Reporters

on officially recorded grades. The present study was not intentionally designed to bear upon this question. Relevant data had been collected in the process of other research, and since there was found to be a sparsity of appropriate research on the accuracy of grade reporting, it was decided to investigate this question. It is recognized that these data may have limited generalizability to other institutions or curricula.

Achievement in Dental School as Related to Personality and Aptitude Variables.

Attempts to predict performance in dental school from individual scales of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) have yielded equivocal results. A search for combinations and clusters of sca...

Evaluation of in-Service Counselor Training

IN the spring of 1952, under a grant from the Rosenberg Foundation, the Counseling Center of the University of California undertook a studyl of the need for in-service training of high school counselors, and the techniques of training that would be most effective in this setting. Ten counselors from two of the local high schools participated. These schools differed in the length of time each had maintained a counseling staff, the amount of experience and training of the counselors, and the administrative policy under which counseling

How Counseling Affects Vocational Goals

ance Centers in the middle of the 1940’S the literature is replete with descriptive accounts of the populations involved, and with attempts to indicate the value of the counseling. Most of these rather modest attempts at evaluation are follow-up questionnaire studies of two kinds: first, determining the continuance in training of veterans whose training objectives were establishing in counseling; and second, obtaining the veteran’s direct statement of his feelings about the counseling he had. This study does not propose to evaluate the counseling which, in this case, occurred at the University of California, Berkeley, Counseling Center, administered by the University under contract with the Veterans Administration. Rather it purports to categorize descriptively what occurred during the counseling process with specific reference to vocational goals, a necessary step preliminary to evaluation of that which occurred. Because of the standard procedures established by the Veterans Administration in its Advisement and Guidance program an unusual opportunity is afforded for review of how counseling affected the original goal of the counselee. Of close to a total of 8000 cases of veterans counseled at the

Factors within the 1969 SVIB for women and relationships to Holland's theory

Abstract The Basic Interest Scales (BIS) and the Occupational Scales (O-S) of the revised Strong Vocational Interest Blank for Women (TW 398) were assigned Holland codes, and component scores for the BIS and O-S were separately developed, intercorrelated, and evaluated along with standardized composite scores representing each of the 11 O-S Groups on the profile. The dimensionality of the BIS and O-S was similar, and similar in number to Hollands theory, but the components were only partially congruent. Some profile Groups provided relatively good representations of BIS and/or Occupational scale components, and the grouping of the O-S provided important information not otherwise readily available. Hollands dimensions are not uniformly represented in either the BIS or O-S, and despite some similarities, fundamental problems of compatibility appeared to exist in relating the structure of this instrument to Hollands formulations. Womens interests are in need of independent study.

Predicting Student Success in Graduate Business Courses

At the request of the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Business Administration, the Counseling Center began a study in the fall of 1957 to determine the relationship between selected psychological tests and course grades. Rapidly increasing enrollments in graduate education in business administration demand more effective methods of student selection. Are intelligence tests and personality inventories of value?

Attitudes of Counselors in Training

Mrs. Barbara A. Kirk is Manager of the Counseling Center of the University of California, Berkeley, California. DURING the academic year 1952-53, a studyl was undertaken to investigate the needs of secondary-school counselors and to evaluate the effectiveness of some techniques of in-service training. The entire counseling staffs of two high schools took part in the program-comprised of ten counselors at all levels of training and experience. Participation in the study was entirely voluntary. Pre-training questionnaires and interviews with the consultant early in the program revealed that the counselors’ views toward their positions were somewhat similar, although only one of them had requested assignment to his duties and none of them had initially planned to become a counselor. All believed they had excessive clerical duties which limited the time available for counseling; they felt hampered in their efforts to understand a pupil’s problems and to help him make the best possible adjustment. Most of them felt that their background in both formal academic training and specialized or practicum training was inadequate. Although they were aware of their responsibilities as counselors, they indicated feelings of futility toward any undertaking which could not be easily resolved in a short period of time. Although it was relatively easy for the counselors as a group to admit their deficiencies, it was difficult for them as individuals to reveal the