IntroductionAs an educator and counselor, I am very interested in student interest inventories. Working in class, it can be very difficult to gauge student interest when choosing thematic units or a class project. As a college counselor, I am constantly looking for resources to help my students choose a future career path. I completed my research and found three popular interest inventories: the Strong Interest Inventory, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and the Clifton Strengths Finder. Each of the three assessments analyzes the same general theme of interest, personality and career choices. I analyzed each one to determine the best interest inventory to use with my students. Test A: 1994 Strong Interest Inventory The Strong Interest Inventory was developed in 1935 by researcher EK Strong. The inventory is closely related to the Holland Codes, a six-part theory of career choice. The six components are realistic, creative, investigative, social, enterprising and artistic. More than 55,000 people completed the research version of the 1994 Strong Interest Inventory that was used in the study of the validity, structure, and content of the 1999 Strong Interest Inventory4 (Donnay & Borgen, 1996). The inventory consists of 317 items and is primarily used with a wide age range from high school to older adults. The inventory is based on general professional themes, basic interest scales, and personal style scales. These scales have a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10 (Donnay & Borgen 1996). The personal style scales are bipolar scales, meaning they have distinct, meaningful poles. The study then continues by discussing each of the three types of questions and identifies the answers and correlation for each. Of the second three...... middle of paper ...... get funding from my department to pay for the tests. Free versions of the test are also available on some online resources. Therefore, administrative concerns related to the MBTI are the least of the three testing options. Works CitedDonnay, D. and Borgen, F. (1996). Validity, structure, and content of the 1994 Strong Interests Inventory. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 43(5), 275-291.http://doi.apa.org/journals/cou/43/3/275.pdfLopez , S., Hodges, T. and Harter, J. (January 8, 2005). The Clifton StrengthsFinder technical report: development and validation. Clifton Highlights Search. Retrieved April 26, 2011 from http://strengths.org/docs/CSFTechnicalReport.pdf Pittenger, D. (2003). The usefulness of the Myers-Briggs type indicator. Review of Educational Research, 63(4), 467-488. Retrieved April 27, 2011 from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1170497