Evaluating career assessments

I found a website recently which provides an evaluation of a number of work and life instruments, such as the Career Decision-Making Model shown here (Emerge, 2023a). The research team - a consortium of Tulane University, the University of California San Diego, and the programme Evidence-based Measures of Empowerment for Research on Gender Equality, or "Emerge" -  uses a sensible framework of 14 attributes, against which each assessment is rated against, as shown on the image accompanying this post. The view taken is a feminist one, with a lot of psychological and sociological instruments measuring women's views being assessed. We need to search through the available instruments - I used the dropdown list of key dimensions on the home page (here; Emerge, 2023b) to find those which relate to career development work - and there are a LOT of instruments that have been rated. 

What is really simple is that the assessors have used an extended traffic light system. The green dots are for items with a full score, and orange for those which only partly apply. I presume that some assessments will have a red dot (i.e. they are unreliable in that category), which is not shown on this particular instrument (Emerge, 2023a). The extension to the traffic light system are that the grey dots, which appear to be for elements which the consortium have not evaluated; and black are for those items which do not relate to the particular construct. 

Quite a clever way of assessing an instrument at a glance :-)

Sam

References:

Emerge. (2023a). Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale. Tulane University; University of California San Diego; Evidence-based Measures of Empowerment for Research on Gender Equality (EMERGE). https://emerge.ucsd.edu/r_2y5nt5mpxmkhzen/#:~:text=The%20Career%20Decision%2DMaking%20Self,%2C%20Planning%20and%20Self%2DAppraisal

Emerge. (2023b). Home. Tulane University; University of California San Diego; Evidence-based Measures of Empowerment for Research on Gender Equality (EMERGE). https://emerge.ucsd.edu/