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Article: Developing qualitative career assessment processes. (Articles).
- Article from:
- Career Development Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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Assessment has been integral to career counseling since the early 1900s. During that time, the greatest amount of attention was focused on quantitative assessment. Thus, there is still very little to guide the development and conduct of qualitative assessment in career counseling. The authors present an overview of qualitative career assessment and its theoretical underpinnings and propose suggestions that could guide the development of qualitative career assessment instruments.
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Since its origins in the early 1900s, assessment has been an integral part of career counseling, and its use is still widely accepted (Chartrand & Walsh, 2001). During ...