ABSTRACT
The focus of this chapter is the current state of research on career assessment. With that in mind, literature from approximately 1994 to the present has been reviewed. In particular, I have chosen to address how well some of the most commonly used career assessment methods meet the challenge of the Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change for Psychologists (American Psychological Association [APA], 2003). Specifically, the Guidelines state with regard to psychological research that “researchers should strive to be knowledgeable about a broad range of assessment techniques, data-generating procedures, and standardized instruments whose validity, reliability, and measurement equivalence have been investigated across culturally diverse sample groups” (p. 389). They further state with regard to practice that “multiculturally sensitive practitioners are encouraged to be aware of the limitations of assessment practices…to have knowledge of a test’s reference population and possible limitations of the instrument with other populations” (p. 391).
