Standardized Testing and Employment Equity Career Counselling: A Literature Review of Six Tests

Prepared for The Employment Equity Career Development Office Public Service Commission of Canada

by Gerald P. Gruber, M.A.
March, 2000

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Contents

Executive Summary

Introduction

Method

How We Chose the Tests to be Reviewed
Sources for the Literature Review
Means by Which Tests Were Reviewed

Values Assessment

Why Assess Values
Life Roles Inventory Values Scale

Interest Inventories

Why Assess Interests
Jackson Vocational Interest Survey (JVIS)

Personality Measures

Why Assess Personality
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
NEO Personality Inventory-Revised

Aptitude Measures

Why Assess Aptitude
Multidimensional Aptitude Battery II
Test d'aptitudes informatisé

General Principles in Using Standardized Tests in Career Counselling with Employment Equity Groups

Employment Equity Groups
Reliability
Validity
Perception
Language of Testing
Accommodation for Persons with Disabilities
Normative, Criterion-Referenced or Ipsative Interpretation
General or Subgroup Norms
Alternatives to Standardized Assessment

Recommendations

Conclusion

References

Glossary