are used primarily to identify vocational goals and to assist career guidance; the tests are more useful at the secondary level. Their use in a school probably indicates greater attention to vocational guidance.

Sixty-four percent of all high school pupils are in secondary schools which give interest inventories to students in at least one grade. Negroes are less often than whites to be in secondary

for the Negroes in the whole country as compared to 67 percent for whites. This is true also in every region in both metropolitan areas of the South and in the metropolitan areas of the Southwest where over 20 percent more white than Negro students attend schools where interest inventories are used. For the other racial groups, the range is from 47 percent of Puerto Rican students to 65 percent of Indian American students.