Career Choice and Development

26 CAREER CHOICE AND DEVELOPMENT

health occupation careers because he doesn’t like biology or the
idea of working in this field.

Assessment Data

K was asked to rate his confidence in his ability to do well in each
of the following subjects, using a 1 to 10 scale, with 1 indicating
that he has little confidence in his ability to do well in the subject
and a 10 indicating that he is almost totally confident that he could
do well if he decided to do so. His self-efficacy ratings follow.

Educational Self-Efficacy Ratings

Math 9

Chemistry 7

Physics 6

English composition 7

English literature 5

Biology 6

History 7

Art (drawing) 6

Music (the study of ) 5

K’s Self-Directed Search Results

1. Occupational Daydreams
   Something with computers and a lot of money
   Pro skateboarder
   Doing video filming and editing (AES) Architect (AIR)


2. His SDS is CRI/A, with C and R being virtually tied (27 and
   26, respectively); I and A were tied (17). His lowest score was
   on the Social scale (4).