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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pepinsky, Harold B
• Wrenn, C. Gilbert

Titel

Research Notes from Here and There

Ist Teil von

• Journal of counseling psychology, 1956-01, Vol.3 (1), p.67-73

Ort / Verlag

Wm. C. Brown Co

Erscheinungsjahr

1956

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• Frequent reference has been made in this Journal to the Career Pattern Studies being conducted by Super and associates at Teachers College, Columbia University. David Tiedeman has sent me a summary of related work in progress at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University: The Harvard Studies in Career Development. This co-ordinated research presents another fresh and stimulating attack upon the problem of occupational choice. I have taken the liberty of quoting from Dr. Tiedeman's report, dated October 14, 1955. William Budd has submitted a short paper that bears relevantly on the problem of clinical prediction. Although Budd does not tell us how the composite correlation coefficient of .77 was obtained for the 15 counselors predicting the grade point averages of 83 students, it is interesting to note that this r appears to be higher than the r obtained for the students predicting their own grades. Moreover, his obtained range of r 's among the counselors (.20-.92) may be quite meaningless, because the number of students for whom predictions were made by any one counselor must have been quite small. His report is provocative, however, and the suggested variability among counselors in their ability to predict student grade point averages was corroborated in an unpublished study by George Vening, which he conducted in 1951-52 as a member of our research team. Next a report by Richard Goodling and George Guthrie is discussed that will be useful to investigators who are interested in the problem of making comparisons among persons. The Q-Sort is not to be recommended as a simple device for describing what people are like. Finally, at my request, Junius Davis has summarized for us a report that compares the performance in a university of public and private secondary school graduates. It might not otherwise come to the attention of counseling psychologists, and it does illustrate the very careful research on the prediction of academic achievement being conducted by Norman Frederiksen and those associated with him at Princeton University.