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Diamond, Esther E., ,Ed. Issues of Sex Bias and Sex Fairness in Career Interest Measurement. Aries -Corp., McLean, Va. National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, D.C. Career Education Program. 75 oEc-0-72-5240 239p.

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MF-$0.76 HC-$12.05 Plus Postage Affective Tests; Career Choice; Discriminatory Attitudes (Social) ; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); *Evaluation; *Females; Feminidm; Interest Scales; *Interest Tests; Minority Groups; Racial Discrimination; *SeADiscrimination; Sex Role; Sex

Stereotypes; Test Bias;, *Vocational Interests;

Woking Women *Career Interest Inventories; National Institute of Education; Readincs (Collections)

ABSTRACT A series of papers and guidelines, resulting from the

National Institute of Education (NIE) Career Education Program's study of sex bias and sex fairness in career interest inventories, are presented in'the document. Intended for publishers and users of career interest inventories and related services an6 materials as standards for evaluating sex fairneSs, the guidelines,are presented

in the following sections:. the inventory itself, technical information, and interpretive information. Eleven papers are presented, dealing with issues ivlentiflekby tfi4k NIE Career Education Program Planning Group study. Chapter topics include: (1) the impact of intepast inventories on female career choicei: (2) the use and evaluation of interest inventories and simulations; 13-4) technical aspects of interest measurements; (5) the face validity of interest measures; (6) factors affecting a client's,view ofinterest inventories; (7) sex bias in terms of black women; (8) interest inventories and the matur6 woman; (9) the.cost of developiig interest inventories; (10) counter-based guida4nce systems analyses; and (11) legal implications of sex bias .in interest inventories. Etch paper contains tn abstract and is discussed in the overview. Background material is supplied in the forward, and the book is indexed. (LH)

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,c) Issues of Sex Bias and Sex Fairness in

Career Interest

Measurement

ESTHER E. DIAMOND, EDITOR

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Table of Contents

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NIE Career Education Program staff and Planning Group members

Foreword LOIS-ELLIN DATTA

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Overview . ESTHER E. DIAMOND

Guidelines

1/ Impact Of Interest Inventories on Career Choice

NANCY S. COLE and GARY R. HANSON

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2/ The Use and Evaluation of Interest Inventories and

Simulations . JOHN L. HOLLAND

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3/ Technical Aspects: Problems of Scale Development, Norms,

Item Differences by Sex, and the Rate of Change in Occupu-

tional Group CharacteristicsI

LENORE W. HARMON'

45

4/ Technical Aspects: PrOblems of Scale Development, Norms,

Item Differences by Sex, and the Rate of Change in Occupa-

tional Group CharacteristicsII

CHARLES B. JOHANSSON

65

5/ Face Validity of Interest Measures: Sex-Role Stereotyping'

MARY FAITH TANNEY

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6/ Reducing Sex Bias: Factors Affecting the Client's View of

the Use of Career Interest Inventories

JANICE M. BIRK

101

7/ A Consideration of Race in Efforts To End Sex Bias

JANICE PORTER GUMP and L. WENDELL RIVERS.....; 123

8/ Expanding Opportunities for the Reentry Woman: The Use

of Interest Inventories With the Mature Woman

MARY ELLEN VERHEYDEN-HILLIARD

141

''' ., 9/ Costs of Developing Interest Inventories and Implications

for Change . JO-IDA C. HANSEN

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10/ Sex Bias and Computer-Based Guidance Systems

JO ANN HARRIS BOWLSBEY

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11/ The Legal Implications of Sex Bias in Interest Inventories

LAURINE E. FITZGERALD assisted by

B. JEANNE FISHER

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List of Abbreviations Index

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NIE Career Education Program Staff and Planning Group Members

National Institute of Education Career Education Program Staff

Washington, D.C.

Lois-ellin Datta Lance Hodes Nancy J. Hunt Marylou Randour Corinne Rieder

'Setiior Consultant, NIE Career Education Program, and Chairperson, Plana*. Group:

Esther E. Diamond Guidance Programs Laboratory Science Research Associates Chicago, Illinois

Jo Ann Harris Bowlsbey Education Depaitment Western Maryland College Westminster, Maryland

Herlinda Cancino Harvard University School of Education Cambridge, Massachusetts

Nancy S. Cole Research and Development Division' The American College Testing Program Iowa City, Iowa

Janke Porter Gump Counseling center Howard University Washington, D.C.

Robert L. Linn University of Illinois College of Education Urbana, Illinois

Planning Group

L. Wendell Riy,ers Mental Health Specialist Pr Ogram University of Missouri St. Louis, Missouri

Carol Tittle Department of Education, Queens College The City University of New York New York, New York

Mary Ellen Verheyden-Hilliard Sex Equality in Guidance Opportunities Project American Personnel and Guidance Association Washington, D.C.

Louise Vetter Center fo, Vocational and Technical Education Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio

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