Kuder Career Search / Kuder Career Interests Assessment.
KCS / KCIA
- What it measures
- Activity-preference vocational interests scored to 6 Kuder Career Clusters (Outdoor/Mechanical, Science/Technical, Arts/Communication, Social/Personal Services, Sales/Management, Business Operations), plus 'Person Match' similarity to ~2,000 real employed adults' interest profiles.
- Length and format
- ~60 forced-choice activity triads (KCS); a Likert variant (KCIA-L) uses rated items. ipsative forced-choice triads (rank most/least preferred); KCIA-L variant uses Likert ratings (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Spanish and other languages via Kuder/Navigator platform; used internationally in schools
- 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
- Zytowski, D.G. (2001). Kuder Career Search with Person Match. Kuder, Inc. https://www.kuder.com/
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