Short-cuts to scoring an interest test

Abstract

The average of correlations between scores on the Strong Vocational Interest Test obtained by the standard method and the short-cut method of only "likes" is .85. With the short-cut method employing only likes and dislikes, the scores correlate between .908 and .905 with those obtained by the standard procedure, but this short-cut method will not differentiate one occupational group from another as well as the standard procedure. Another short-cut method by Rosenstein and Birnberg, in which the weights used in the standard procedure are reduced from 30 and -30 to 9 to 0, gives scores equivalent to the standard procedure and differentiates occupational groups equally well. This method does not save time in scoring by hand; however, it has an advantage when used with the Hollerith card. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)