Research of high school students' vocational values

This research has two main purposes. The first is to develop a valid and reliable inventory to determine the vocational values of high school students. The second is to determine whether there are differences between the various vocational value variables of high school students.Research was conducted in central city of Malatya and the sample of the study consisted of 1292 high school students. At the first stage of the research which is the development of vocational values inventory, it has been applied to 474 high school students. At the second stage of the research which is the examination of vocational value variables of high school students, it has been applied to 818.The research findings related to the validity and reliability of Vocational Value Inventory are presented.Views of professional academics working in the field in various universities were taken into consideration in the scope of sub-dimensions validity of the inventory. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to determine the construct validity of the inventory. Nine dimensions were revealed with the confirmatory factor analysis. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed in order to test alignment of the data to the nine-factor model obtained by the exploratory factor analysis. It was observed that for the nine-factor model t values were significant at .01 level for the clarification of latent variables to the observed variables and the error variance of the observed variables are not too high (.27 - .71). 35 items took place in the final form of the inventory. Inventory consists of nine sub-dimensions. These nine sub-dimensions are named as