Responses to the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey by 3983 males from nine occupational groups provided the data to compare the accuracy of four scoring strategies: lambda coefficients, currently used by the test publisher, chi-square weights and two applications of multiple discriminant analysis. An analysis of variance test of the percentage of individuals correctly identified by each technique indicated that no statistically significant differences existed between the strategies. The study therefore provided empirical evidence supporting the continued use of the lambda weighting procedure for the scoring of the Kuder OIS.
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