A Field Test of an Instrument for Assessing Job Knowledge

The importance of a person's knowledge of various jobs and its relationship to career development and counseling have long been recognized in the counseling profession. Unfortunately, however, only a few measures of job knowledge have been developed and they have received only limited attention. The Job Knowledge Survey (JKS) is a new instrument that measures job knowledge across two sets of dimensions. This study reports on a field test of the instrument that was undertaken to determine if the JKS conforms to expected theory-based predictions and to investigate its concurrent validity. The results suggest that the JKS functions as would be expected and provides support for its validity. The JKS, therefore, appears to have strong potential as an effective measure of job knowledge.