ABSTRACT
The history of the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey, Form DD (KOIS), dates back to the Depression days of the early 1930s, when, as a graduate student at The Ohio State University, Frederic Kuder undertook some very modest research on the relation between interests and vocations. His research and development work continued, still on his own time and with his own funds (e.g., he borrowed on his life insurance), after he joined the University of Chicago. In 1939, after 6 years of research, the first Preference Record —Vocational was distributed by the University of Chicago bookstore. Science Research Associates published it in 1941. Responses yielded scores on seven relatively independent scales: Literary, Scientific, Artistic, Persuasive, Social Service, Musical, and Computational.
