What advantages does DISCOVERY have in comparison to computer based Interest Inventories?
DISCOVERY gives students the advantage of seeing and understanding the process of how interests relate to educational/ career planning. This can teach students lifelong skills in understanding a process that may be performed without their understanding when they use a computer based program. In addition, students will be exposed to career lists of more than 400 careers when they use DISCOVERY. Often, in computer based Interest Inventories, students only see their end result which is often a list of less than 10 careers. Exposing students to a comprehensive list of careers can help them increase their career vocabulary which can be beneficial in providing more flexible and broader choices for their future, an objective that is very important with the age group that DISCOVERY is designed for. As well, students can keep the complete DISCOVERY book for future reference or to show their parents. In computer based Interest Inventories, students often only keep the final print-out of careers
