Provides an approach to ensure that courses are implemented as designed. Highlights include training the trainers and peer teaching, the need for cooperation between the course development and delivery teams, the use of technology, using subject matter experts, and evaluation through telephone interviews that supports this approach. (LRW)

The Chinese version of the Self-Directed Search was completed by 409 Chinese secondary students, revealing strong support for 2 concepts in Holland's theory: congruence and calculus, the relationship among types. Gender differences were consistent with those in studies of Western and non-Western cultures. (SK)

High school students (92 females, 127 males) using Krumboltz Job Experience Kits (occupational simulations) experienced 6 diverse jobs in random order and recorded reactions on the Perceived Congruency Questionnaire. Results supported Holland's hexagonal model, indicating that different personality types react to different jobs in accord with the…

The Fit for Performance exercise is designed to show how congruence between a work group's composition and complexity of its tasks affects outcomes. Students are assigned to one of four conditions, with complex or simple tasks and unifunctional or multifunctional group composition. (SK)

Interest-occupation congruence and career exploration behaviors were examined in a sample of 107 White and 83 Asian Indian American college students. It was hypothesized that there would be both intergroup differences and intragroup differences. Asian Indians were expected to evidence less congruence and career exploration than Whites. The…

Previous work indicates that semantic categorization decisions for nonexemplars (e.g., deciding that TURBAN is not an animal name) are faster for high-frequency words than low-frequency words. However, there is evidence that this result might depend on category size. When narrow categories are used (e.g., Months, Numbers), there is no frequency…

This study was conducted to analyze the conditions under which adolescents agree with their parents and/or friends on specific political topics in the Federal Republic of Germany. Respondents were 136 father-mother-adolescent triads in West Berlin. The adolescent sample was evenly divided by gender, the age ranged between 12 and 18 years. In…

Prenatal appointment keeping is an important predictor of birth outcomes, yet many pregnant adolescents miss an excessive number of appointments. Since effective strategies for increasing appointment keeping require costly staff time, methods to predict relative risk for noncompliance with appointments might help delineate a circumscribed…

Holland's original environmental formulations proposed that an environment's influence was transmitted through its inhabitants: environments could be classified by the predominant personality type of their inhabitants. But the approach to environmental assessment that relies on a census of inhabitants is only one approach, job analysis is another.…

Snyder's (1974) construct of self-monitoring in communication refers to the degree of self-observation and self-control, guided by situational cues to social appropriateness. To investigate the relationship of level of self-monitoring (high or low) to the ability to accurately discriminate varying levels of incongruent communication, 62 college…

In an experiment designed to explore the immediate disconfirming effects of strong and mild incongruent messages and the impact of certain contextual constraints on disconfirming effects, 192 male undergraduates evaluated videotaped examples of strong and mild sarcasm and joking and the complementary congruent forms of straightforward positive and…

Compared health need perceptions of 269 community-based elderly persons and 80 health-care professionals. Found high degree of incongruence between perceptions of elderly and of professionals. Health professionals were not good predictors of the health status of the elderly, and they did not accurately predict the barriers faced by the elderly…

Examined congruence of health ratings among older adult patients and their primary care physicians and nurses. Congruence ranged from 29 to 69 percent across 14 health and treatment questions (N=108 patient/provider pairs). Patients appeared to be more favorable on most questions, and questions with a present orientation exhibited greater…

Explored differential contribution of three alternative variables in explaining career-relevant behavior in science and engineering students. Results revealed that self-efficacy was the most useful in predicting grades and persistence in technical/scientific majors, self-efficacy and congruence contributed to prediction of range of perceived…

Examined effects of sex and sexual attitude similarity on undergraduates' (N=209) perceptions of a counselor. Subjects gave more positive ratings on a general measure of counselor credibility and on specific measures of confidence in the counselor's ability to help with sexually relevant problems to counselors expressing attitudes similar to the…