Career Occupational Preference System Interest Inventory.
COPS
- What it measures
- Vocational interests across 14 COPSystem career clusters (8 areas - science, technology, outdoor, business, clerical, communication, arts, service - with professional and skilled levels). Part of the COPSystem triad with the CAPS (abilities) and COPES (work values).
- Length and format
- 168 items. interest ratings of job-related activities (Like very much -> Dislike very much), mapped to 14 occupational clusters (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Spanish (COPS-P and related forms) and other adaptations; COPS-PIC picture-based form for low-literacy/cross-language use
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- copyrighted - commercial
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- Reference
- Knapp-Lee, L.J. (1995). Use of the COPSystem in career assessment. Journal of Career Assessment, 3(4), 411-428. https://www.edits.net/via/interests
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