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Assessment is…
A process of gathering
relevant information to
plan, evaluate, or make
decisions (academic
assessment, transition
assessment, career
assessment, vocational
assessment).
Information can be
gathered from
multiple people
and places over a
period of time.
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What is “Transition Assessment”?
“Transition assessment is an ongoing process of collecting
information on the student’s strengths, needs, preferences,
and interests as they relate to the demands of current and
future living, learning and working environments.
Assessment data serve as the common thread in the
transition process and form the basis for defining goals and
services to be included in the IEP.”
All stakeholders participate in the process
of information-gathering and decisionmaking
2007 Corwin Press. Assess for Success: A Practitioner’s Handbook on Transition Assessment,
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2nd ed., by Stillingtion, Neubert, Begun, Lombard, and Leconte
Defining Transition Assessment
What it is:
• Ongoing and cumulative
• Individualized
• Based on student’s
strengths, needs,
interests, & goals
• A process that increases
student self-awareness
• Used to develop
appropriate postsecondary goals
What is it NOT:
• The same for all
students
• Done “once a year”
• Only completed just
before the IEP to fill
out the forms
• Only the responsibility
of the special education
teacher
Adapted from B. Charton (2007). Arkansas Dept. of Ed. Transition Assessment Toolkit
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HOW does the team gather information on
interests, preferences, and aptitudes?
Formal
Assessments
Interviews
Surveys
Questionnaires
Situational
assessments
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Don’t Forget….
• Be sure to make use of the assessment data
that is already being collected by Guidance
Counselors in your school!
Assessing Interests and Preferences
Examples:
• Bridges Interest Inventory
• Student Transition Survey or Interview
• Kuder General Interest Survey (KGIS)
• COIN Career Guidance System of Assessment
• Aviator Assessment
• Ansell Casey Life Skills Inventory or Personal
Preference Indicator (free)
• Keys2Work
• Learning Styles Inventory
• pacareerzone.org (free)
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PA Career Zone: www.pacareerzone.org
• Free Assessments for Students (next
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Quick Assessment
Interest Profiler
Skills Profiler
Work Importance Profiler
PA Career Zone: www.pacareerzone.org
PA CAREER ZONE: Quick Assessment
(Approximately 5 min.)
www.pacareerzone.org
Interest Profiler
(Approximately 30 min.)
PA Career Zone- Skills Profiler
PA Career Zone: Work Importance Profiler
(Approximately 30 min.)
PA Career Zone: Education Planner
Interests and Preferences- Significant Needs
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*Person-Centered Planning (PATH)
Observations (Home/School/Community)
Student Survey or Interview
*Parent Survey/Interview
*Ecological Assessment
Situational Assessment
*Portfolio
*Electronic or web-based assessments
Information from student and family members
Functional Behavioral Assessment
Information from employers
• * more information in assessment folder
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Person-Centered Planning
• Especially helpful for students with significant needs
• Bringing people together to discuss the visions and goals of
the students:
– PATH: Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope
– MAPS: Making Action Plans
– Essential Lifestyle Planning
• Enhances quality of assessment and planning activities for
both HS transition services and adult services
• Fosters working relationships between families and
professionals
• Helps to educators and agencies to coordinate services
• Helps ensure that services support student goals
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• Helps identify & cultivate natural supports in the community.
Student/Parent Survey, Interview, Observations
• Gather information
– In writing
– Face to face
– In the setting
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Ecological Assessment
• Authentic
• Dynamic
• Looks at the areas in the environment that
the student will use, analyzes the demands by
listing the sub-environments, activities, and
skills that will need to be learned.
• Must be completed before Situational
Assessment can be completed.
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My Electronic Portfolio:
“Get to Know Me Better”
• For students with significant
needs including
communication needs, a
personalized picture
portfolio helps to introduce
them to teachers, potential
employers, etc.
Picture Interest Career Survey (PICS)
http://www.jist.com
• Quick way to identify occupational
interests by using pictures of people
at work.
• Test takers are presented with 36 sets
of 3 pictures and choose which of the
three portrayed occupations seems
most interesting.
• Based on pictures selected, PICS
creates a profile of the individual that
leads directly to career information
and potential job matches.
• Takes less than 15 minutes to
complete and score can be, given
individually or in groups,
• Solid reliability and validity; tested on
wide variety of populations
COPS- PIC
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Personal Data
Wizard
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Wide Range Interest and Occupation Test—
Second Edition (WRIOT—2)
• Does not require reading or language
understanding -- ideal for use with
individuals with disabilities or those who are
educationally or culturally disadvantaged.
• Contains 238 full-color pictures to help
students and adults determine whether they
like, dislike, or are undecided about the work
situations depicted.
• Administer using picture book or CD.
• Results are depicted graphically to help
guide individuals toward career choices
based on their strengths in 17 Occupational,
16 Interest, and 6 Holland Type Scales.
• $371
http://www.pearsonassessments.com
Your Employment Selections (YES!) is
motion-video, Internet-based job
preference program for youth and
adults with disabilities. This program
allows youth and adult participants
with limited or no reading skills to
watch videos of jobs, listen as a
narrator describes key tasks in each
job, and select preferred ones. The
program shows motion video for 120
different jobs. When 2-3 preferred
jobs are selected, a facilitator (such as
a teacher) rates the job seeker on
various work dimensions based on the
job seeker's skill levels. The result is
identification of the best-matched job,
strengths and weaknesses, and training
priorities.
Your
Employment
SelectionYES!
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Secondary Transition and Indicator 13:
A Focus on
Students with Significant Needs
April 29, 2010
Rosemary Nilles , Linda Loar, Kathryn Enos
Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network
Choose and Take Action
Sopris West Publishers
(www.sopriswest.com)
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Choose and Take Action: Finding a Job for YOU
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“A Life for Me - Cyber Community”
• FREE!!!
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Interactive, web-based career exploration
“Talking guide”
Geared for middle school age students
Also contains parent content
Register and create password to use
www.alife4me.org
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Envision Your Career
This language-free occupational interest
inventory is designed to measure career
interest in people who have little or no
English skills or limited reading and writing
abilities. It consists of 66 live-action images
showing people performing typical job duties
in actual work environments.
Using a score sheet, viewers rate each
occupation on a scale of 1 to 5. The scores
are then totaled for each occupational type:
Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social,
Enterprising, and Conventional.
22 minutes. Available in DVD format only.
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Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network
Age appropriate transition assessment is needed to:
Identify
interests and
preferences
Set postsecondary
goals
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Post-Secondary
Education/Training
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Employment
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Independent Living
Further assess
aptitudes,
abilities, skills
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Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network
Identifying student’s post secondary goals
leads to further assessments…
Identify
interests and
preferences
Set postsecondary goals
Further assess
aptitudes,
abilities, skills
• Abilities: talents or
acquired skills
• Aptitudes: combination
of characteristics that
helps us know if the
student might learn or
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particular area
Assessing Aptitudes: Domains
Assessing aptitudes may include areas such as:
• Academic Skills
• Organizational skills
• Social Skills
• Dexterity Skills
• Communication Skills
• Self Help Skills
• Travel Skills
• Mobility Skills
• Workplace Values
• Self Determination and Self Advocacy Skills
• Other areas based on individual need
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Types and Sources of Information on Aptitudes
• Curriculum-Based
Assessments
• Classroom quizzes
comprehension checks,
essays, checklists/rubrics
• Progress monitoring on
goals
• Comprehensive
Diagnostic Tool (CDT)
• 4Sight
• Keystone
• PSSA
• ASVAB
• Career and technical
education assessments
• Work Samples
• Portfolios
• Information from
employers
• Situational Assessment
• Commercial assessments
of specific career-related
aptitudes (McCarronDial, SAGE, etc.)
• Observations
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Classroom Diagnostic Tools (CDT)
• Free, online assessments designed to
provide diagnostic information in order to
guide instruction
• Assist PA educators in identifying
students’ academic strengths and areas of
need, providing links to classroom
resources
• Integrated and aligned with the Standards
Aligned System (SAS)
NEW!
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PA Keystone Exams
• End-of-course assessments designed to assess
NEW!
proficiency in Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry,
Literature, English Composition, Biology, Chemistry,
U.S. History, World History, and Civics & Government
• Aligned with SAS -- supporting resources include:
– Standards-Based Instruction
– Voluntary Model Curriculum
– Classroom Diagnostic Tools.
• Component of PA’s new graduation requirements.
• Will help districts guide students toward meeting state
standards - aligned with expectations for success in
college and the workplace.
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Assessing Aptitudes- More Examples
Environmental Job Assessment (E-JAM)
• Used to assess general work behavior
• Physical demands of the job,
• Working conditions
• Social interactions
Situational Assessment
• How student is performing on the job
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Brigance Transition Skills Inventory
Includes in-depth assessments of job-oriented, academic, and
functional life skills in the context of employment, postsecondary education, and real-world situations. These
assessments cover a broad range of skills:
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Pre-employment
Career awareness
Job-seeking
Post-secondary
opportunities
Housing
Food and clothing
Health
Travel & transportation
Community resources
• Functional writing
• Functional reading
• Listening &
speaking
• Math
• Money & finance
• Technology
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PAES Program
PAES operates in a simulated work environment. Students
become employees; teachers become supervisors. Strict
procedures are followed so students get the feel of real work, at
the same time learn and explore new career vocational areas.
Training in :
Skills needed for vocational training,
placement and independent living.
Assessment of :
Interest, Aptitudes,
Competitiveness, Work Behavior
Barriers, and Best Teaching
Methods.
Exploration
PAES provides exploration through
HANDS-ON experience providing real
and meaningful career information and
knowledge of what they can do!
Work Behavior Development
PAES assesses and trains proper work
behaviors, eliminating many barriers to
successful job placement.
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Assessing Independent Living Skills
• Comprehensive Informal Inventory of Knowledge and
Skills for Transition
• Ansell-Casey Life Skills Inventory
• Functional Independence Skills Handbook (FISH)
• Choosing Outcomes and Accommodations for
Children (COACH)
• Leisure Diagnostic Battery
• AIR Self-Determination Scale.
• Arc Self-Determination Scale
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Communication Assessments
• Every Move Counts Clicks and Chats
• Tangible Symbol System
• Design to Learn: An Environmental Inventory
• All Kids Communicate
• Social Networks: A Communication inventory
• Home Talk: a Family Assessment of Children who are
Deafblind
• Behavior Indication Assessment Scale (BIAS)
• Inventory of Potential Communicative Acts (IPCA)
• All Kids Communicate
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Three Basic Questions
• Transition assessment should answer three
basic questions:
– Where is the student presently?
– Where is the student going?
– How does the student get there?