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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Employability Skills Rubric | Allows the supervisor to rate essential workplace skill indicators to evaluate student workers. Includes data sources, summary and next steps. |
Employability/Life Skills Assessment | This 24-item checklist rates an individual on how often he/she accurately and efficiently engages in work-related behaviors as well as interpersonal skills, and creates a performance profile that can be updated and compared yearly. |
Employee Social Skills Checklist | This 14-item checklist is designed for teachers and job coaches to observe the student at a job site and rate how effectively the student uses the social skills required for that job. This assessment is available in The New Transition Handbook on page 29, form 2.4. The New Transition Handbook by Carolyn Hughes and Erik W. Carter (2012, Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc.) |
Employment Support Indicators | This assessment was designed to assist self-advocates families, and professionals to plan for potential employment supports and accommodations for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. |
Enderle-Severson Transition Rating Scales | This rating scale, which ranges from 47-272 questions (depending on the version), rates the student's abilities and identifies desired outcomes for their future. |
Environmental Job Assessment Measure (E-JAM) | This 47-item checklist is designed to help service providers identify employment placements and accommodations. |
Envision IT | An evidence-based college and career readiness curriculum for students with disabilities. |
Field-Hoffman Self-Determination Assessment Battery | This 92-item assessment measures a student's self-determination by rating how closely a variety of statements align with the student's beliefs. |
Financial Literacy Inventory | This 60-item assessment addresses financial literacy and money management. |
Find Your Strengths! | This 56-item computer-based assessment has students read statements and identify whether the statement does or does not describe them to find their top three intelligences. |
FISH: Functional Independence Skills Handbook | An assessment book designed for students with more significant needs that assesses students' functional capabilities. |
Functional Skills Transition Assessment | Three different levels of surveys determine competency in areas including supported employment, daily living, health and physical care, leisure, mobility, money skills, social, workplace readiness, and specific skills. |
Health Care Transition Readiness Assessment for Students | This health care transition readiness assessment is intended for students and their family/caregivers to compete as part of IEP transition planning meetings. If a student is unable to fill out this form, the student can complete it with the help of their family/caregiver. |
Health Care Transition Skills Checklist (PEATC) | The Health Care Transition Skills Checklist has students rate their ability to take care of healthcare needs from being independent (can already do) to needing support (ongoing support needed). |
Holland Code Career Test | This computer-based assessment has students identify their level of interest for different statements. Based on how they score, it will give them career interest areas based on their preferences and interests. |
Home Inventory Form | This 11-item inventory helps students identify resources in their community, what barriers they may encounter, and potential supports. It is located in the New Transition Handbook on page 29 as form 2.5. |
HomeTalk: a Family Assessment of Children who are Deafblind | This assessment is designed to help identify the strengths, interests, and personalities of individuals who are deafblind. |
Improving Your Study Habits | This quick assessment asks students to identify what study habits they already do, plan to do, or are not interested in doing. |
Independent Living Postsecondary Goal IEP Team Decision Assistance Form | This assessment has educators read statements and identify whether the student possesses the skill. This assessment is a Word document. |
Independent Living Scales | This assessment measures the ability of individuals aged 17+ to live independently and complete daily living activities. |
Independent Living Skills Checklist (Michigan DoE) | This assessment consists of 15 checklists in which teachers/parents/guardians identify what independent living skills students can do with assistance, to what they can independently do. |
Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire | This 44-item assessment has students read statements and choose an answer that most aligns with their preferences to identify their learning style. |
Informal Assessments for Transition Planning | A collection of 52 informal assessments covering 11 transition domains. |
Informal Assessments for Transition: Employment and Career Planning | This book is a collection of 60 informal assessments related to career planning. These assessments address the areas of interests and preferences, abilities and skills, career exploration, and finding and securing a job. This book is the first in the Informal Assessments for Transition series. |
Informal Assessments for Transition: Independent Living and Community Participation | A collection of 65 informal assessments in the areas of self-advocacy, self-determination, interpersonal skills, daily living, and transportation and mobility. This book is the second in the Informal Assessments for Transition series. |
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