The Kinds of Items that Work in an Interest Activities Index
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8221445 |
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| Authors | John W French (New College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1965 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 101 |
| Publication date | 1965-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Educational Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8312 • E-ISSN: 1935-1011 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1161924 |
| OpenAlex | W4237739918, W2043688984 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The interest items to discussed consist of brief descriptions of activities. The subject indicates whether he would like, be indifferent to, or dislike participating in each activity. Full freedom was permitted to express a liking for many activities or few, and the subjects, freshmen in their first week of college, had no particular reason to fake their responses. The list of activities carefully avoided occupational names or experiences limited to older persons; it included situations familiar to high-school students, either through direct participation or through knowing other students who participated. Thus, a student's liking for familiar activities was used to estimate his potential interest in college fields that might not familiar to him. The present study asks what particular kinds of items in an index of this type can best predict success and satisfaction in more advanced work. For example, what is the relative effectiveness of items dealing with hobbies vs. those dealing with reading, of items concerned with study in the field vs. those concerned with practice, of items about one particular content area of a field vs. those about another
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| Highly cited | No |
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