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  Manual

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  Includes details on reliability, validity, scoring, etc. and a review-only copy of the CDSE form. PDFs are not refundable.

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  Individual Report: Original Form

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  Builds a report that interprets an individual's CDSE Original Form scores. You invite participants to take the survey and Transform™ generates their reports.

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  Report About Me: Original Form

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  Interprets and reports on your CDSE Original form scores. You complete the survey and Transform™ generates your report. Transform will connect this report to the "Send To" email provided at checkout. Note: This product is for a single use, with automated survey administration. For multiple uses, buy instead the Individual Report product in quantity needed.

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  Group Report: Original Form

  $200.00

  Builds a report that calculates and summarizes average CDSE Original Form scores for a group of participants.

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  Individual Report: Short Form

  $15.00

  Builds a report that interprets an individual's CDSE Short Form scores. You invite participants to take the survey and Transform™ generates their reports.

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  Report About Me: Short Form

  $20.00

  Interprets and reports on your CDSE Short form scores. You complete the survey and Transform™ generates your report. Transform will connect this report to the "Send To" email provided at checkout. Note: This product is for a single use, with automated survey administration. For multiple uses, buy instead the Individual Report product in quantity needed.

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  Group Report: Short Form

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  Builds a report that calculates and summarizes average CDSE Short Form scores for a group of participants.

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  Transform Survey Hosting: Original Form (Data)

  $2.50

  Minimum purchase of 20. Allows you to administer the CDSE Original Form as an online survey using Mind Garden's Transform™ System. Includes data collection: data file with participants' raw data and raw scale scores. Optionally, Individual Reports and Group Reports can be generated from the collected data - requires the purchase of report licenses. Customization services are available.

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  Transform Survey Hosting: Short Form (Data)

  $2.50

  Minimum purchase of 20. Allows you to administer the CDSE Short Form as an online survey using Mind Garden's Transform™ System. Includes data collection: data file with participants' raw data and raw scale scores. Optionally, Individual Reports and Group Reports can be generated from the collected data - requires the purchase of report licenses. Customization services are available.

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  License to Administer

  $2.50

  Minimum purchase of 50. Allows you to administer the CDSE as an online survey via a non-Mind Garden survey system or as a paper and pencil survey. The downloadable PDF file includes one copy of the CDSE, scoring key, and permission to administer the CDSE up to the quantity purchased. The PDF is non-refundable.

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  Manual: Printed for shipping

  $60.00

  Includes details on reliability, validity, scoring, etc. and a review-only copy of the CDSE form. This is a paper product. The manual will be printed, bound, and shipped to you (FedEx shipping costs apply).

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Features of the CDSE

Purpose: Measures confidence in ability to complete major career decision tasks

Length:

CDSE Original Form = 50 items

CDSE Short Form = 25 items

Average completion time:

CDSE Original Form = 15 minutes

CDSE Short Form = 10 minutes

Target population: Ages 16 and older

Administration: For individual or group administration

Uses of the CDSE

• Indicates an individual's pattern of higher and/or lower confidence areas as they relate to career decision making competencies
• Identifies students at high risk for academic or decisional difficulties and, hence, those students needing career or academic intervention
• Suggests which areas of decision are most in need of intervention
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of educational and career interventions (such as DISCOVER, or administration of interest or values inventories).

Scales

Self-Appraisal: The ability to accurately appraise one's own abilities, interests, and values as they related to educational and career decisions.

Occupational Information: The ability to locate sources of information about college majors and occupations, including the ability to identify and talk with people employed in the occupations of interest.

Goal Selection: The ability to match one's own characteristics to the demands and rewards of careers so as to identify one or more majors or careers to pursue.

Planning: Knowing how to implement an educational or career choice, including enrolling in educational programs, job search, resume writing and job interviewing.

Problem Solving: Being able to figure out alternative plans or coping strategies when plans do not go as intended.

Available with CDSE License to Administer:
These translations are available free of charge with your purchase of the license. Translations are provided in a separate pdf-format file. Select the language from the Translation drop-down list. Need multiple translations? Contact us.

• Cambodian - Short Form only
• Chinese-Cantonese - Short Form only
• Chinese-Mandarin - Short Form only
• Greek - Short Form only
• Hungarian - Short Form only
• Indonesian - Short Form only
• Polish - Short Form only
• Romanian - Short Form only
• Slovak - Short Form only
• Swedish - Short Form only
• Vietnamese - Short Form only

No translations available with CDSE Transform™ Survey Hosting.

Note: We cannot assure translation quality — many are made by individual researchers and we are not necessarily familiar with the particular language or dialect. Some of the translations are partial and typically do not have validation data. Basically, we offer whatever is available to facilitate your work.

If you are unable to find the translation you need, you can request permission to make a translation.

Selected References

Betz, N. E. (1992). Counseling uses of career self-efficacy theory. Career Development Quarterly, 41, 22-26.

Betz, N.E., Hammond, M., & Multon, K . (2005). Reliability and validity of response continua for the Career Decision Self-efficacy Scale. Journal of Career Assessment, 13, 131-149.

Betz, N. E., Klein, K., & Taylor, K. (1996). Evaluation of a short form of the Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale. Journal of Career Assessment, 4, 47-57.

Betz, N. & Luzzo, D. (1996). Career assessment and the Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale. Journal of Career Assessment, 4, 313-328.

Crites, J. O. (1978). Career Maturity Inventory. Monterey, CA: CTB/McGraw Hill.

Crites, J. O. & Savickas, M. L. (1996). Revision of the Career Maturity Inventory. Journal of Career Assessment, 4, 131-138.

Niles, S. & Sowa, C. (1992). Mapping the nomological network of career self-efficacy. Career Development Quarterly, 41, 13-21.

Taylor, K. M. & Betz, N. E. (1983). Applications of self-efficacy theory to the understanding and treatment of career indecision. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 22, 63-81.

Taylor, K. M. & Popma, J. (1990). Construct validity of the career decision self-efficacy scale and the relationship of CDSE to vocational indecision. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 37, 17-31.

From the Manual

"Although the concept of self-efficacy expectations provided the primary theoretical basis for scale development, Crites' (1978) model of career maturity provided the original scale authors (Taylor & Betz, 1983) with a framework for deciding how to define and operationalize the skills required in career decision-making. More specifically, Crites (1978) in his model of career maturity hypothesized that "good" career decisions will be facilitated by competence with respect to five career choice processes and by mature versus immature attitudes regarding the career choice process. Because self-efficacy theory is defined in relationship to competence in specific behavioral domains, Crites' five career choice competencies were used to define the domain of interest, that of competent career decision-making. These five competencies and, subsequently, the subscales of the CDMSE, were:

1) accurate self-appraisal;
2) gathering occupational information;
3) goal selection;
4) making plans for the future; and
5) problem solving.

"Thus, the conceptualization and measurement of career decision self-efficacy involved the integration of two major theories, one originally stemming from clinical/social psychology and the other having its origins in counseling/vocational psychology.

-- Nancy E. Betz and Karen M. Taylor, Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale Manual