O*NET® Career Exploration Tools — Ability Profiler (AP) Reports

Generation and Use of Occupational Ability Profiles for Exploring O*NET Occupational Units (1999)

This paper describes the development of the ability profiles for each occupational unit (OU) and their use in career exploration, specifically using the O*NET Ability Profiler. It includes coverage of the procedure for generating the OU-specific ability profiles, the procedure for linking clients' ability profiles to OU profiles, and the decision rules for determining the specific information that is presented within the career exploration tools.

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Volume I: Report (PDF - 2.4 MB)
Volume II: Occupational Ability Profiles (PDF - 3.8 MB)

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Linking Client Assessment Profiles to O*NET Occupational Profiles (1999)

This report describes the procedures used to compare and match a client's assessment profiles obtained from one or more of the O*NET Career Exploration Tools to O*NET-SOC occupation profiles. The report describes the corresponding algorithms developed for clients using a single O*NET tool and for clients using multiple tools.

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Linking Client Assessment Profiles to O*NET Occupational Profiles (PDF - 289 KB)

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Development of General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) Forms E and F (1996)

The primary purpose of the GATB Forms E and F Development Project was to develop alternate forms of the cognitive portion of the GATB (Parts 1-7) following procedures that met accepted professional standards. Issues addressed in development include reducing test speededness and susceptibility to coaching, investigating scoring procedures, developing items free from bias, assembling parallel forms, improving test aesthetics, and revising answer sheets and other materials.

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Development of General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) Forms E and F (PDF - 927 KB)

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Equating Forms E and F of the P & P - GATB (December 1995)

This report provides a description of the data collection and analyses for the equating study of the new paper-and-pencil Ability Profiler forms. The report addresses issues and analyses covering equating, reliability, and construct validity.

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Equating Forms E and F of the P & P - GATB (PDF - 1.7 MB)

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An Examination of the Speededness of the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) Power Tests (May 1994)

This report provides results of an examination of the GATB's use of time limits on tests (i.e., speeded tests) measuring constructs that are conventionally measured by tests with generous time limits (i.e., nonspeeded tests).

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An Examination of the Speededness of the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) Power Tests (PDF - 5.4 MB)

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Implications of Deleting the Form Matching Test from the General Aptitude Test Battery (May 1994)

This report discusses the research that was done in response to the National Research Council's recommendation to examine deleting either the Form Matching or the Tool Matching parts from the GATB in order to allow for increased time limits for three of the GATB's power tests. The potential implications are documented and alternative procedures for computing GATB aptitude composites are developed.

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Implications of Deleting the Form Matching Test from the General Aptitude Test Battery (PDF - 174 KB)

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Review of Issue Associated with Speededness of GATB Tests (December 1993)

This paper presents research findings and opinions collected from a literature review related to the speed component of power tests. These findings are discussed as they pertain to four parts of the GATB: Computation, Three-Dimensional Space, Vocabulary, and Arithmetic Reasoning.

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Review of Issue Associated with Speededness of GATB Tests (PDF - 253 KB)

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