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Abrams, Michael – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1979
Describes the development of a work sample battery designed for assessment of vocational aptitudes, interests, and temperament in a disadvantaged client population. VITAS provides information about factors most related to success on the job: interest in the job, temperament for the job, and aptitudes for physical and cognitive components of the…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Disadvantaged
Download full textRoessler, Richard; And Others – 1987
The Work Performance Assessment (WPA) is a brief work simulation designed to evaluate job maintenance skills, emphasizing work-related social/interpersonal skills rather than specific vocational skills. The WPA uses three work samples involving sorting of food service items to measure 19 common work demands in four categories: responding to…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Interpersonal Competence, Job Performance
