Escala de Aconselhamento Profissional: análise com estudantes de Ensino Médio

this study aimed at analyzing the "escala de aconselhamento profissional-eap" with high school students, trying to make comparisons with the normative sample that answered the scale, which was composed by college students. two data sets were used, the first one composed by 762 college students, and the second one comprised of 950 high school students. factor and rasch analyses were conducted. the same factor structure defined for college students was found with adolescents successfully. item reliability ranged from 0.97 to 0.99 and people reliability varied between 0.70 and 0.85; fit statistics, regarding people and items, was adequate. theta and item difficulty were similar in both samples. results were interpreted as favorable to using eap to measure vocational interests of adolescents, considering the previously defined dimensions.