ABSTRACT
Such questions, asked frequently of counselors and educators, reflect the preeminent role of assessment in vocational psychology. A massive body of scholarly literature, including chapters in previous editions of the Handbook of Vocational Psychology, scores of journal articles, and the Journal of Career Assessment (JC4), as a periodical devoted entirely to the subject, considers assessment relative to a full range of topics. These topics include career assessment and vocational interests (Savickas & Spokane, 1999; Zytowski & Borgen, 1983), work values (Dawis, 1991; Sagiv, 2002; Super & Nevill, 1985; Zytowski, 1994a), career maturity (Savickas, Briddick, & Watkins, 2002; Westbrook, 1983), career choice content and process variables (Betz, 1992; Crites, 1969; Hackett & Watkins, 1995), career decision making (Savickas, 2000; Slaney, 1988), computer-assisted career guidance (Gati, 1996; Rayman, 1990), special populations (Subich & Billingsley, 1995), women (Hackett & Lonborg, 1994), cultural context (Leong, 1995), the Internet (Chartrand & Oliver, 2000), and innovations in career assessment (Chartrand & Walsh, 2001; Savickas & Walsh, 1996), just to name a few. A comprehensive review of the career assessment literature also appears biennially in JCA, with special issues
of the journal devoted periodically to selected topics in career assessment. Literature reviews appearing in other periodicals, such as Journal of Vocational Behavior and The Career Development Quarterly, as well invariably address career assessment.
