Additional Assessments and Resources
Advance CTE: The Career Clusters Framework – The framework serves as the foundation for designing consistent, high-quality Career Technical Education (CTE) and career pathway programs.
California Department of Education, California Career Resource Network: California Career Zone – This is a web-based career exploration system. Students use one of the career assessments to help them refine their career interests. Students can also create a budget and determine which careers can support the lifestyle they desire.
University of Missouri: Career Interests Game – This is a game designed to help you match your interests and skills with similar careers. It can help you begin thinking about how your personality will fit in with specific work environments and careers.
U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration: Career One Stop
- Career Videos – Explore a collection of videos on hundreds of different careers.
- My Next Move (also available in Spanish) – My Next Move is an interactive tool for job seekers and students to learn more about their career options. My Next Move has tasks, skills, salary information, and more for over 900 different careers.
- Skills Matcher – A self-assessment tool that matches skills to career options.
OCALI: QuickBook of Transition Assessments - This guide provides quick activities, checklists, questionnaires and other informal assessments to school districts and/or agencies that provide special education or special education and related services to youth with disabilities.
Virginia Department of Education, I'm Determined Project: Self-Determination Checklist – A student self-assessment to assess self-determination.
Virginia's Community Colleges: Career Interest and Work Values Assessment - There are two parts of this career assessment; the first part asks the individual what they are interested in, and the second part asks what they need from a job or work environment.
Department of Defense: myFuture – A website dedicated to exploring various careers, searching for college and learning about military opportunities.
Workforce Innovation Technical Assistance Center (WINTAC): Explore Work - A website for teens with disabilities to begin exploring their talents and creating a plan for their future.
Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center: Transition Assessment Matrix – A tool to find age-appropriate transition assessments in the areas of employment, independent living and education/training.
Job Accommodation Network (JAN) - leading source of free, expert, and confidential guidance on workplace accommodations and disability employment issues.
U.S. Department of Labor: O*NET OnLine – online tool for career exploration and job analysis.
XAP Paws in Jobland™: A game-based website designed to accommodate the unique needs of educators and parents as young children, in kindergarten – grade 5, as they begin exploring the world of work.
ODEP: Skills to Pay the Bills: Mastering Soft Skills for Workplace Success – A publication created to provide an introduction to the "basics" of soft skills. These materials have been designed with youth service professionals in mind – specifically those working with in-school and out-of-school youth, ages 14 to 21, on career and workforce readiness skills. The basic foundation for the structure of these activities includes convenience, cost-effectiveness, and creativity. They were designed in such a way as to be easily incorporated into current programming and/or already established curricula.
The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE): ACTE Online –This program of study framework and companion program self-evaluation instrument is an evidence-based framework defining high-quality Career and Technical Education (CTE). With more than 90 criteria organized under 12 elements, the framework captures the full range of activities across a CTE program of study that prepare learners for career success.
Social Security Administration: The Red Book – A Guide to Work Incentives and Success at Work: - The Red Book serves as a general reference source about the employment-related provisions of the Social Security Disability Insurance and the Supplemental Security Income Programs for educators, advocates, rehabilitation professionals, and counselors who serve people with disabilities.
CT Department of Labor: CT Department of Labor website helps to provide information on the labor market, wages, unemployment, and apprenticeship programs.
Zarrow Institute: Transition Assessment and Goal Generator (TAGG) – An online transition assessment and goal generator. The TAGG also provides a norm-based graphic profile, present level of performance statement, lists of strengths and needs, and suggested IEP annual transition goals.
Tennessee Department of Education: Transition Tennessee – This site shares research-based practices and policies. The site is organized into different sections for educators, for providers, and for students including free video-based lessons, ideas, resources, and much more.
Virginia Career VIEW - Virginia Career VIEW (Vital Information for Education and Work) is recognized as the Commonwealth's Career Information Delivery System for all students in grades K-12 in Virginia.
University of Minnesota National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET): Youthhood – This web site was built to help youth plan for the future. Youth can explore various opportunities they may want to do after high school.