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Career Literacy: Developing, Validating, And Establishing The Reliability Of The Career Literacy Continuum Scale, Kesha S. Valentine
Career Literacy: Developing, Validating, And Establishing The Reliability Of The Career Literacy Continuum Scale, Kesha S. Valentine
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The purpose of this study was to develop a valid, reliable measure of career literacy skills called the Career Literacy Continuum Scale (CLCS). Career literacy is a person’s ability to read, understand, evaluate, and make decisions based on career-related information. The study participants were adolescents in grades 6 - 12 who attended public school in the southeastern United States. This study used an instrumentation research design and was conducted in two phases, item generation followed by test analysis and optimization.
Validity was established throughout the process by using content experts and establishing the item and scale validity indices. Item response …