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web‐assisted vocational test interpretation
Author(s) -
Jones W. Paul,
Harbach Robert L.,
Coker J. Kelly,
Staples Pamela A.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.2002.tb00844.x
Subject(s) - modalities , interpretation (philosophy) , vocational education , psychology , session (web analytics) , test (biology) , medical education , applied psychology , multimedia , world wide web , computer science , pedagogy , medicine , paleontology , biology , programming language , social science , sociology
Despite the increasing availability of online counseling services, many questions remain unanswered. This study compared the effectiveness of a specific employment counseling activity, vocational interest inventory interpretation, across 3 delivery modalities: (a) online text chat; (b) online text chat with video cues; and (c) traditional, face‐to‐face interpretation. The difference in ratings of session value between text chat with video and face‐to‐face modalities was not significant; both were rated significantly higher than text chat alone. The results provide tentative support for online delivery of vocational test interpretation if video cues are available but suggest caution with use of text chat alone.