Career Interest Inventory Analyzer (CareInAnalyzer)

Ida Aryanie Bahrudin, Mohd Ezree Abdullah, Rosfuzah Roslan, Pang Chun Kai, Tang Reng Shyang,
Mohd Hatta Mohamed Ali@Md Hani, Noordiana Kassim@Kasim, Mariam Abdul Hamid, Halim Omar
Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Batu Pahat, Malaysia
aryanie@uthm.edu.my

Zamnah Ali
Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Tinggi Batu Pahat, Batu Pahat, Malaysia
zamnahali@yahoo.com

Highlights: CareInAnalyzer is a psychometric tool to help understanding a persons strengths and

weaknesses. The analysis results gained can be used by the experts to guide the individual towards their
right career path. CareInAnalyzer had specially designed to be used by school and college students to
gain clarity about their best-suited career, so that they may choose a course which is the most
appropriate for them and help them to reach success taking optimum time.

Key words: psychometric analysis, individual potential, talent, ability.

Introduction

Psychometrics define as a field of study related to the theory and technique of psychological measurement.
As defined by National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), psychometrics refers to psychological
measurement that basically devoted to testing, measurement, assessment, and other related activities (NCME, 2017).
Since 2007, Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia had been introduced Psychometric Assessment (PPsi) concept for
implementation in Secondary school. This initiative had been taken in order to gather information about students traits
psychology through psychometric analysis. The information gathered through the analysis will contribute students
profile information that can help educator to identify and groom student potential (Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia,
2014). PPsi in Malaysia education system refers to the assessment activity that used to identify students natural
potential, personality, talent, interest and tendency characteristics. One of the assessment in PPsi is Personality Test
known as Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) for secondary school students (Form 1, 3 and 5).
Enrolment statistics of secondary school students in Malaysia until 31st May 2016 are 2,188,525 (Portal Rasmi
Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia, 2016). Currently, the PPsi had been done in every school manually. Each of the
student is given a set of VPI form consists of 180 questions to be answered manually. After answering all the questions,
counselors will help the students to calculate their score. Then, counselor will explain to students the interpretation of
the gained score. As all the processes were done manually, the score gained is somewhat unreliable as it were
calculated by the students themselves. Besides, the large number of questions cause students feel bored that
contributes to produce inaccurate answers.
As every student have to undertake PPsi as requested by the Ministry of Education, therefore this project aim
to automate the process of PPsi by developing Android apps that can help students to assess their potential by
providing important information about their strengths and weakness. The assessment analysis of students talent and
abilities will give them the confidence and courage to pursue suggested career with full enthusiasm which will finally
direct them towards the successful achievement of their future.

Content
Description of innovation
Students access CareInAnalyzer that had been installed in their Android device. They can choose to answer three
types of test which are quick test (30 questions), medium test (90 questions) or full test (180 questions). All the questions
had been designed with interesting and interactive interface to avoid students from being bored during answering all
the questions. Students can save their answers partially before they finish all the questions as CareInAnalyzer include
the features to retrieve back the previous answer so that students can continue answering later until they finish the
assessment. After that, CareinAnalyzer will analyze all the answers and provide students with their talent and abilities
based on the answered questions. They can also view their suggested career that best-suited according to their talent
and abilities. Figure 1 shows the assessment process using CareInAnalyzer.

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 CareInAnalyzer analyze
student answer and show the
analysis result to the students.
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Student access
CareInAnalyzer and
choose between three
types of assessment; quick, Students are also provides
This result will explain and with the detail characteristics
medium and full test.
discuss with students about of their talent and career
the analysis result description based on the
analysis results

Figure 1: CareInAnalyzer process flow

Background of the innovation

Choosing a right career path is crucial especially among the students as a guidance for them to put their efforts in the
right direction. CareInAnalyzer makes it easy especially for students to choose the right career which is best suitable to
their aptitude, personality, and interests. CareInAnalyzer is a unique psychometric tool which will help students to
achieve their potential by providing important information about their strengths and weakness which will give them
the confidence and courage which direct students towards the successful achievement of their dreams.

Importance to education
The followings are some of the importance of CareInAnalyzer to education:

Students
i. It will help students to shortlist select few careers that they can pursue from a bunch of career options that are
available nowadays.
ii. Students will become more informed about their own strengths and weaknesses, so that it can help them to know
their ability well.
iii. Getting to know what careers is naturally going to be good at will prompt one to pursue those careers path, and
eventually, increase the chances of leading a happy and successful life when they further their studies.
iv. As career planning is continuous while talent remains relatively stable, students can use the same assessment
and plan their career path whenever they feels the need.
v. Knowing themselves and making informed choice would help them to pursue your dream career that lead a
successful life.

Counselor/Teacher
i. Helping the counselor to implement the career test assessment systematically.
ii. Reducing the use of paper which indirectly save the printing cost.
iii. Reducing the time consumption for analyzing the career test score.
iv. Increasing the reliability of result analysis as current process need students to calculate their score manually.

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Advantages of innovation towards education and community
CareInAnalyzer specifically help the counselor in secondary school to get the career analysis of their students as
required by the Ministry of Education Malaysia easily. Furthermore, CareInAnalyzer can also be used by the parents in
order to know their children talent and abilities. The use of CareInAnalyzer does not limited to the secondary students
only but can be used by anyone in order to unravel the real talents and individual skills. CareInAnalyzer can help
anyone to recognize the best career fit for and then provides information to help them achieve their best suited career.

Commercial value

The idea of developing CareInAnalyzer can be commercialized to all school in Malaysia in order to help counsellor
and students implementing the career assessment in order to gain clarity about their best-suited career, so that they
may choose a course which is the most appropriate for them. Besides, CareInAnalyzer can also be used by career
counselors, career advisers, placement companies, career advisory firms, and human resources of corporate to see
the fitment of the individual to a particular career or job.

Acknowledgement

Special thanks to everyone who helped and contributed to making this project a fabulous success.

References

Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia. (2014). Retrieved from Panduan Pentadbiran Psikometrik Tingkatan 3:
http://apps2.moe.gov.my/lponline/v1/images/bahan/ PPsi/Manual%20Psikometrik%20Ting%203.pdf

NCME. (2017). NCME- National Council on Measurement in Education. Retrieved from Glossary of Important Assessment and
Measurement Terms: http://www.ncme.org/ncme/NCME/Resource_Center/Glossary/NCME/Resource_Center/
Glossary1.aspx?hkey=4bb87415-44dc-4088-9ed9-e8515326a061#anchorP

Portal Rasmi Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia. (2016). Retrieved from Statistik Bilangan Sekolah, Murid & Guru:
http://www.moe.gov.my/index.php/my/statistik-kpm/statistik-bilangan-sekolah-murid-guru