The Kuder Career Search with Person-Match (KCS) has a variety of applications; however, the KCS is best suited to help an individual in generating a list of reasonable occupational possibilities. The KCS includes a radical innovation in interest measurement because individuals are not compared to a group within an occupation but are compared to normative responders with a similar KCS response pattern. The primary purpose of this investigation was to examine the test-retest reliability and consequential validity of the KCS. As a group, the internal consistencies for all KCS activity preferences demonstrated adequate consistency. In general, temporal reliability indices for the KCS activity preferences were quite strong. Consequential validity was incorporated with one outcome measure due to the exploratory nature of this portion of the study. The consequential validity of the KCS demonstrated in this study is promising and needs to be more carefully (i.e., methodologically) assessed in future studies.
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