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Four Methods to Determine RIASEC Codes for College Majors and a Comparison of Hit Rates
Author(s) -
Harrington Thomas F.,
Feller Rich,
O'Shea Arthur J.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.1993.tb00412.x
Subject(s) - subject matter , subject (documents) , psychology , code (set theory) , mathematics education , computer science , medical education , pedagogy , medicine , library science , curriculum , set (abstract data type) , programming language
This study compared RIASEC college major codes derived from surveying students enrolled in 28 majors, the judgments of subject matter and counseling experts, and workers employed in jobs related to the majors. Of the four methodologies used to obtain college codes, the highest degree of agreement was the 96% between student Career Decision‐Making (CDM) codes having reasonably close matches or better with codes in the Dictionary of Holland Occupational Codes . The article discusses that students must be aware that some common major names are not very communicative or descriptive of the predominant code types studying the subject.