A short form of the Career Interest Test: 21-CIT
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Article Title | A short form of the Career Interest Test: 21-CIT |
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ERA Journal ID | 6360 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Bartlett, Cristy (Author), Perera, Harsha N. (Author) and McIlveen, Peter (Author) |
Journal Title | Journal of Career Assessment |
Journal Citation | 24 (2) |
Number of Pages | 13 |
Year | 2015 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications Ltd |
ISSN | 1069-0727 |
1552-4590 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1069072715580579 |
Web Address (URL) | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1069072715580579 |
Abstract | The Career Interest Test (CIT; Athanasou, 2000, 2007) is a widely used 63 item forced-choice instrument that provides the individual with a number of career areas to explore based on their highest ranked, or most preferred, career interests. Administrators of the CIT have requested a shortened form of the test that reduces respondent burden. The aim of this exploratory, secondary data analysis, study is to develop a shortened form of the CIT that shows reliability when compared to the full version of the test. Analyses using a categorical factor model with probit link function for dichotomous variables, equivalent to a 2-parameter IRT model, were undertaken. Items with the highest absolute factor loadings for each career interest comparison were retained in order to create a shortened form of the CIT with 21 questions, and renamed 21-CIT. The large within-subject correlations between career interest scores on the full CIT and the 21-CIT indicate that the shortened form of the CIT does provide a reliable estimate of an individual’s score for each of the career interests. Further study is recommended to investigate the relationship between Athanasou’s seven career interests in relation to the two-dimensional work model (People/Things and Ideas/Data) and to further investigate the psychometric properties of the 21-CIT. |
Keywords | Career Interest Test, CIT, short form, 21-CIT, psychometrics |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 529999. Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
390404. Educational counselling | |
390402. Education assessment and evaluation | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q2yw4/a-short-form-of-the-career-interest-test-21-cit
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