Finding the right transition assessments can be a challenge!
We’ve developed this database to help you locate relevant tools to inform transition planning. We’ve already gathered more than 100 assessments, searchable by the transition domains they address, the areas in which they focus, the approaches they use, the disabilities for which they were designed, the languages in which they are available, the persons who complete them, and the cost. In most cases, a particular assessment covers multiple domains and can be used with a wide variety of students.Please note, if you select more than one transition domain in a search, the database will only pull individual assessments that cover all of the domains you select. In other words, the more transition domains you select, the fewer assessments that will populate the search. If relatively few options show when making lots of filter selections, reset the form and try using fewer filters at the same time.
We want to grow this resource to include more tools as well as more low-cost or free options. If you know of other assessments we’ve missed (or that you have created), let us know by submitting information at the bottom of this page. And if you are having trouble finding the right tool, don’t hesitate to let us know that as well.
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Assessment Title with a Link | Description |
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Career Key Discovery | This assessment helps students narrow down career interests and select careers and/or college majors that match those interests. |
Career Occupational Preference Survey | This interest inventory is designed to be used with individuals grade 7 and beyond. It assesses career interests and assigns a career cluster based on the student's responses. |
Career Orientation Placement & Evaluation Survey (COPES) | The COPES assessment measures students values and how they relate to the workplace. |
Career Quiz | This assessment has students identify preferences, interests, and personality traits to target career fields of interest. |
Career/Job Comparison | This comparison-based questionnaire helps students compare features such as the requirements, salary, and location of two potential jobs. |
CareerOnestop Interest Assessment | This 30-item assessment has students rate statements from strongly dislike to strongly like to identify careers that align with their interests. |
CareerOnestop Skills Matcher | A self-ranking scale of work skills that the student fills out to get job suggestions. |
CareerOneStop Work Values Assessment | This 36-item inventory identifies students' workplace values, and pairs those results with potential careers based on the Department of Labor's five "job zones". |
Casey Life Skills Assessment | A 112-item assessment that has students rate their competency in the areas of community participation, financial management, personal management, technology skills, employment, postsecondary education, and independent living. |
CBSP: Community-Based Social Skill Performance Assessment | The CBSP assessment will allow you to accurately assess your students social skill performance in the home and in the community, providing you with the essential data required to establish an appropriate, individualized curriculum. The test uses verbal role-playing and multiple-choice responses to provide valuable information about your students in just 45 minutes. The CBSP assesses social and anti-social behavior and self-control. |
Changing Roles | This 19-item tool assesses basic health care skills and helps families create a plan for teaching these skills. |
Checklist of Adaptive Living Skills (CALS) | The Checklist of Adaptive Living skills measures students' adaptive living skills for anyone birth to 40+. |
Children’s Assessments of Participation and Enjoyment/Preferences for Activities of Children (CAPE/PAC) | A 55-item questionnaire designed to examine how children/youth (ages 6-21) participate in everyday activities outside of school classes. It provides information on the dimensions of participation. Its companion, the Preferences for Activities of Children (PAC), taps into the 6th dimension of participation, children’s preferences for involvement in each activity. |
College and Career Competency Framework | The College & Career Competency Framework assesses students' social emotional skills and needs. |
College Planning Worksheet | This assessment asks students to consider what they need to get done in order to successfully transition into a postsecondary education setting. |
College Readiness Assessment | This assessment has students identify what foundational skills they currently have, and what skills they need to improve upon to be successful in college. |
Community Based Functional Assessment for Transition Aged Youth | A detailed packet that combines observations and rating scales to determine levels of functioning in life skills, community involvement, social skills, and health and safety. |
Community Work Site Student Learning/ Training Site Evaluation | An assessment completed by a job-site supervisor to assess the student's skills within the workplace. |
Community-Based Skills Assessment | This assessment, designed for students aged 12+, includes a planning tool that gathers basic info about the student, followed by an observational functional skills assessment and an interview portion. The assessment questions are differentiated based on the student's age, and measure their level of independence on each skill as well as how many environments they have generalized the skill to. |
Comprehensive Functional Assessment of Direct Care Independent Living Skills | This assessment has family members, teachers, or direct care workers read statements related to independent living skills, and rate the student's level of independence on a 5-point scale (1- Physical prompt to 5- Self-Reliant). |
Comprehensive High School Transition Survey | This 20-item informal survey assesses a student's preferences for post-school outcomes and identifies areas of strength as well as barriers. |
Conover Assessment and Skill Building | Conover Online is a cloud-based assessment tool that assesses the 5 required Pre-ETS services under WIOA. |
COPS-PIC | The COPS-PIC assesses career interests for students with reading or language difficulties, low academic or career motivation, and non-English speaking adults. |
Digital Literacy Assessment | These computer-based assessments test students' digital literacy skills in 15 domains. |
DISC Personality Test | This assessment has student read four statements (28 total groups of statements) and identify what is most like them or least like them, to get a personality score. |
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