Career counselors must continually enhance their knowledge and skills to assist clients
contemplating careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) …

This study draws upon social cognitive career theory and higher education literature to test a
conceptual framework for understanding the entrance into science, technology, engineering …

We provide an overview of and guidance for applying exploratory bifactor models to
vocational research. First, we describe bifactor models and highlight their potential and …

The purpose of this article is to examine the nature and magnitude of the relationship
between cognitive abilities and vocational interests—two important measures of individual …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of virtual mentoring for
enhancing the persistence of secondary and postsecondary students with disabilities …

This article reports the findings from a qualitative study to understand the provision of
electronic mentoring (e-mentoring) to support the educational persistence of students with …

Measures of individual preferences have a long history in applied psychology. Vocational
interest scales were among the first psychological assessments developed by applied …

Students of color remain severely underrepresented in many science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, including environmental fields. Although …

This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the STEM
Career Interest Survey (STEM-CCIS) with data from 590 high-school students in Taiwan …

Prior to empirical investigation of trait level measures, it had been suggested that, on
balance, well-adjusted individuals tended to have a higher level of intelligence than poorly …