Objectives

By the end of this chapter, students will be able to:

1. Differentiate between the ability tests, interest inventories, values inventories, career development, personality inventories, and the miscellaneous tools.

2. Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of using assessment instruments.

3. Choose instruments according to the 10 criteria established by Gysbers, Heppner, and Johnson (2003).

4. Discuss the importance of ethics in using assessment instruments with clients.

5. Explain Zunker and Osborn's (2000) five-step approach to doing career work with clients.

6. Classify assessment instruments according to type.

7. Design a battery of assessments appropriate for a given client.

8. Distinguish between assessments appropriate for use in groups versus individual settings.