Student Self-Directed Search (SDS)
9999 in stock
John L. Holland, PhD, and Melissa A. Messer, MHS
- Purpose: Helps students explore interests for future educational and career planning
- Age range: 11 to 18 years
- Admin: Individual or group
- Admin time: 25-35 minutes
- Scoring time: 10 minutes
- Qualification level: A
The StudentSDS is a career assessment and exploration tool designed and tailored specifically to middle school, junior high, and high school students.
A revision of the SDS Career Explorer (CE), the Student SDS is based on John Holland's theory, known as RIASEC theory, that both people and working environments can be classified according to six basic types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.
The theory is based on the idea that if your personality type matches your work environment type, you are more likely to find job fulfilment and career satisfaction.The new StudentSDS helps students learn about programs of study and careers that best match their personalities.
Features and benefits
- Captures students' personalities, skills, and interests.
- Guides students as they search occupations and programs of study that might best suit them and lead to job satisfaction.
- Includes a Professional Manual With Teacher's Guide to assist practitioners with administration, scoring, and interpretation.
- Aligns with the Individual Career and Academic Plan (ICAP) Quality Indicators of self-awareness, career awareness, postsecondary aspirations, postsecondary options, environmental expectations, academic planning, employability skills, and financial literacy.
Test structure
- Includes an assessment booklet that asks students about their occupational daydreams, aspirations, activities, competencies, interest in a variety of occupations, and self-estimates and calculates a customized two-letter Summary Code based on the student's responses.
- Features a Career Finder for students to explore occupations based on their Summary Code and an Educational Opportunities Finder for students to explore programs of study based on their Summary Code.
- Includes a You and Your Future Workbook, which uses bold graphics and imagery designed to engage students in the career-discovery process.
- Written at a seventh grade reading level.
Technical information
- The StudentSDS uses a subset of data from the SDS Form R, 5th Edition (2013). It was standardized on 318 students ages 11 to 17 years.
- Coefficients for the Activities, Competencies, and Occupations scales range from .71 to .92, and summary scale coefficients range from .88 to .93.
- Test-retest reliability ranged from .82 to .96 on the overall sample, indicating that summary scale scores have substantial ability over time.
StudentSDS Kit includes the StudentSDS Professional Manual With Teacher's Guide, 25 each of the StudentSDS Assessment Booklet, Career Finder, and You and Your Future Workbook and an SDS Educational Opportunities Finder