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COPSystem Online Beta-Testing

We are ready to begin a new round of beta-testing for the web-based Career Occupational Preference System -
The COPSystem Online.
 
Your participation will help us improve test administration by significantly decreasing the time required to assess individual examinees while preserving the validity and integrity of your results....Read More.

 

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COPSystem Career Measurement

The COPSystem Career Measurement Package includes all of the materials you need to administer, score and interpret the COPS Interest Inventory, CAPS ability battery and the COPES work values survey.

Interpretation of results is organized around groupings of occupational clusters which represent the world of work.

Learn More About Support Materials -
Career Guidance Made Easy!

Wall Charts and Pocket Charts  help identify the right occupation for your client.
The Career Briefs Kit provides specific job information in an easy and accessible format for all ages.
The Job Handbook is a useful resource for young adults who want a fun guide to help them prepare for the world of work.
IRIS machine scoring system

A Brief Summary of the Reliability and Validity
of the COPSystem Assessments

A career guidance assessment progam is a valuable way to increase self-awareness and professional competence among students and working adults. The COPSystem consists of the COPS Interest Inventory, the CAPS ability battery, and the COPES work values survey. All three are long established, reliable, and valid assessments relating interests, abilities and values to occupations and occupational information. Reliability and validity information is presented....Read More.

 

Updated Norms for the COPSystem Assessments

The 2009 norms for the COPSystem assessments are available. These data were gathered from 2004 through 2007, and are based on a sample of 22,691 students in grades 6-12. The National sample was aggregated based on a weighted population of students from four geographic regions of the U.S. identified by the 2000 U.S. Census Report....Read More.

 

COPS-PIC Norms and Reliabilties

The COPS Picture Inventory of Careers (COPS-PIC) was updated with a new Manual, new norms, and several updated pictures in 2008. The updated pictures depict more modern equipment such as up-to-date looking computer equipment, cash registers and vehicles. Many of the pictures, especially in the Arts, Skilled Cluster have been redrawn to accurately reflect the changes in the job activities and equipment used in occupations in this cluster....Read More.

 

Career Education Programs for Elementary School

The COPS Picture Inventory of Careers (COPS-PIC) was administered in over thirty schools in Texas to investigate the effects of a career education program for fifth grade students. Results from this study indicate that overall measures of career interest increased as a result of the program....Full Text.

 

Stability of the COPS Interest Inventory Scores
Between Eighth and Twelfth Grades

In an effort to provide longitudinal validity data for the COPSystem assessments, the COPS Interest Inventory was used to determine the stability of students’ interests from the eighth to the twelfth grade. The effectiveness of career exploration classes in high school was also examined.....Read More.

 

Validity Information:
Using The COPS-P With the CAPS and COPES

The COPS-P System is a career awareness program consisting of three measures: Professional Interests (COPS-P), abilities (CAPS), and work values (COPES).

The COPS-P, CAPS, and COPES may be used together and summarized on a single profile, the COPS-P Comprehensive Career Guide. Interpretation of these measures is organized around a comprehensive set of occupational clusters, which represent all possible jobs. Results are keyed to major sources of occupational  information and related activities, skills, college majors, school planning and training programs....Read More.

 

The CAPS Helps Employers Identify Training Needs

The Bellwood assembly plant, of Borg-Warner Automotive Inc., administered the Career Ability Placement Survey (CAPS) to measure job success and identify work-related areas that need improvement. The CAPS measures eight cognitive dimensions: Mechanical Reasoning, Spatial Relations, Verbal and Numerical Reasoning, Language Usage, Word Knowledge, Perceptual Speed and Accuracy, and Manual Speed and Dexterity.

Employees in most industries are required to adapt to new technology and must be trained in a variety of tasks that may extend outside their formal role, or job description. For this purpose, the CAPS functions as an efficient and comprehensive training and development tool for Human Resources....Read More.

 

Translated Versions of the DOSC

The Dimensions Of Self-Concept (DOSC) is an inventory designed to measure self-concept in the school setting. In the past few years the DOSC has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Portuguese. The validity and reliability of the DOSC has been examined across four cultures in a series of six studies. The authors confirmed the validity of the five DOSC scales across cultures....Read More.