Q VOCATIONAL PREFERENCE INVENTORY RESPONSE PATTERNS Of College of Education Freshmen Women

This study assessed the differences in Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) scoring patterns among various expected teaching majors for freshmen women enrolled in a required College of Education course designed to aid 5n their vocational decision-making as it relates to a professional teaching career. The theoretical basis for the VPI centers around the individual's personality type and its interaction with the environment from which various predictions can be made concerning specific vocational decisions. The report concluded that using a four to six point classification appears to discriminate better between various teaching majors than does the use cf a one to three point classification and that the establishment of local VPI classifications by teaching majors appears to be preferable to relying solely upon Holland's classification. (Author/LA