Online Chinese Career Key Found Effective & Helpful in New Study

The online Chinese Career Key has been found effective and very helpful to public high school students in Hong Kong in a new study described in the September 2009 issue of the Career Development Quarterly, the official journal published by the National Career Development Association.

"A Preliminary Study on the Effectiveness of the Chinese Career Key Online (CCK)" was conducted by Dr. Siu-Man Raymond Ting, Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education at North Carolina State University.

The study found:

• "[p]reliminary evidence that the CCK Online has an acceptable internal consistency with the RIASEC scales..."
• "The CCK Online measures very similarly to the CCK paper-and-pencil version."
• "When compared to SDS scores, the CCK Online scores show moderately strong to strong criterion validity with the RIASEC Score correlations..."
• "...students seem to be highly satisfied with the technology, usability, and helpfulness."

"This study suggests that the CCK Online has good preliminary reliability and validity for exploring and screening occupational interests..."

Full citation:
Ting, S.-M. R (2009, September). A Preliminary Study of the Effectiveness of the Chinese Career Key Online. Career Development Quarterly, 77, 80.

For more information about the study, please contact Dr. Ting using the link above. For more information about using the Chinese Career Key, please contact me: julietjones at careerkey.biz.

NCDA Conference July 2007

At the July '07 NCDA (National Career Development Association) Conference in Seattle, our Caribbean Career Key publisher, Ms. Angela deFreitas and I gave a presentation on how the Internet has facilitated international collaboration between the Career Key and other career guidance professionals, with a focus on the Caribbean.

Here I am with Dr. Raymond Ting, co-author of the Chinese Career Key, and Angela. What a successful presentation and meeting we had.

In addition to Angela's and my presentation, Raymond presented his research on the Chinese Career Key's use in Hong Kong. Raymond and I were also able to make contact with a number of Chinese career guidance professionals attending this conference.