Predictive Validity of the Career Decision Scale Administered to High School Students

Abstract

To study the predictive validity of the Career Decision Scale adapted for high school students, the scale was administered to 205 seniors in a suburban Chicago high school in the spring of the senior year. Two years later, students were surveyed by telephone about their career decisions. Two of the three factor scores on the adapted Career Decision Scale taken during the senior year contributed to the discriminant function that resulted in 85% correct classification of students remaining either decided or undecided two years after high school graduation.