Ponte Academic JournalOct 2017, Volume 73, Issue 10 PSYCHOMETRIC TESTS OF THE CHASIDE BATTERY FOR THE PROFESSIONAL PROFILE: STUDY WITH ECUADORIAN STUDENTSAuthor(s): Sonnia A. Heredia Galvez ,Maria Fernanda Morales G., Cristina Paez Quinde, Victor Hernandez del Salto, Ruth Infante Paredes, Marina Castro SolorzanoJ. Ponte - Oct 2017 - Volume 73 - Issue 10 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2017.10.41 Abstract:Vocational guidance is directly related to the life project of a person, thus the development of instruments which provide the right choice for people in relation to their professional activity is a priority; is in this way that the current research work corresponds to a hypothetical-deductive method, mainly because of its experimental nature through a reliable and valid instrument for the vocational guidance in the Ecuadorian context, adapting the instrument for vocational guidance CHASIDE to this case study, which analyzes aptitudes and interests of students in their professional activity. CHASIDE was applied to 350 high school teens of third year of bachelor, between 16 and 17 years old, statisticians who support this research of results that were processed from a partial of 77% women and 23% men, at the same time equivalences such as: semantic, operational, and mediation were applied as well as reliability tools for the instrument and a positive correlation between the analyzed variables through the Spearman coefficient ratifying the correlation of the instrument items. Download full text:Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution Username Password