Analysis of the D/I, T/P Interest Dimensions as Related to Persistence in a College Major
This study examined the predictability of persistence in the same college major, throughout four years of college, from information provided by the ACT World of Work Map (WWM). The ACT interest inventory scores of 3612 high school seniors, who aspired to one of 24 chosen college majors and were college seniors 4 years later, (1097 persisters, 2515 non-persisters) were analyzed. Individual coordinate points on the WWM were calculated by converting interest scores, using the present ACT conversion formula, to locations on the grid formed by the Data/Ideas (D/I), People/Things (P/T) theoretically based interest dimensions of the WWM. The relationship between persistence in a college major, the distance between an individual's coordinate point on the WWM and each of three different types of representative points on the WWM for each chosen occupational field, and the distance that occupational coordinate point lies from the center of the WWM were examined.
Education, Guidance and Counseling, Education, Educational Psychology
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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