Connecticut State Department of Education

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Due to inclement weather, the Teacher of the Year Ceremony has been postponed to December 16, 2025 from 5-7pm. Doors will open at 4pm. The Ceremony will take place at the Bushnell Theater in Hartford, and the order of events will remain the same.

Transition Assessments A-D

A

Ability Explorer (AE), Third Edition

Target Audience

  • Assessment is designed to be used with anyone thinking about, researching, or planning a career or job. This can include middle school, high school, and postsecondary school students.
  • Reading Level: 8th Grade

Features

  • Administration Time: 35-45 minutes; individual/group
  • Scoring: Self-scoring or self-interpreting
  • Description: The Ability Explorer (AE) ranks a person's strengths in the 12 abilities important in today's workplace. Individuals learn their strongest abilities, plus related careers for developing and using these abilities. Written at an 8th-grade reading level, this 120-statement assessment raises self-awareness, provides practical insights and information, and creates a foundation for informed career and educational planning. Individuals are asked to read each statement and then indicate how good they are or would be at doing the activity. They then progress through steps that show the abilities they are best at and present career choices that match their abilities. Self-scoring and self-interpreting, AE is an ideal career exploration tool that can be used in any educational or workforce-related setting. AE aligns with National Career Development Guidelines and National Standards for School Counseling Programs.

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Adaptive Behavior Assessment System (ABAS-3) School Kit

Target Audience

  • Ages 5-21 years
  • Students with developmental disabilities; autism-adaptive behavior characteristics or with behavior disorders

Features

  • Administration time: 15-20 minutes; individual
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Description: The ABAS-3 is a rating scale useful for assessing skills of daily living in individuals with developmental delays, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, learning disabilities, neuropsychological disorders, and sensory or physical impairments. Rating forms are filled out by the parent and a teacher. The ABAS-3 covers three broad domains: conceptual, social, and practical, using 11 skill areas within these domains. Tasks focus on everyday activities required to function, meet environmental demands, care for oneself, and interact with others effectively and independently. On a 4-point response scale, raters indicate whether, and how frequently, the individual performs each activity.

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AIR Self-Determination Assessment

Target Audience

  • The Scale is designed to be used with all school-aged students. Kindergartners must learn how to make kindergarten decisions – what to wear, which friends to make – so that they can make 21-year-old decisions – where to live, what career to seek.

Features

  • Administration time: Individual or Group Administration. Administered orally or paper/pencil. Four different paper/pencil forms: Educator, Student, Parent, Research form
  • Language other than English: Spanish, French
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Description: The AIR Self-Determination Scale produces a profile of the student's level of self-determination, identifies areas of strength and areas needing improvement, and identifies specific educational goals that can be incorporated into the student's IEP. The AIR Self-Determination Scale measures two broad self-determination components. capacity refers to the student's knowledge, abilities, and perceptions that enable them to be self-determined; and opportunity refers to the student's chances to use their knowledge and abilities.

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ARC Self-Determination Scale

Target Audience

  • Students in grades 9-12
  • Students with mild cognitive and learning disabilities

Features

  • Administration time: Administered orally, and in groups. Individuals may transcribe written responses for student.
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Description: The ARC Self-Determination Scale was developed and normed to: assess the self-determination strengths and weaknesses of adolescents with disabilities; facilitate student involvement in educational planning and instruction to promote self-determination as an educational outcome; develop self-determination goals and objectives; and assess student self-determination skills for research purposes. After students complete the assessment, the ARC Self-Determination Scale yields a total self-determination score and four sub-domain scores: autonomy, self-regulation, psychological empowerment, self-realization, and total self-determination.

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Assessing Barriers to Education (ABE)

Target Audience

  • Students in grades 8-12

Features

  • Administration time: 15-20 minutes; individual or groups
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: More education leads to better employment opportunities and greater career success. This assessment helps individuals identify major barriers to furthering their education. It also offers suggestions for overcoming those barriers and helps individuals decide on the right educational and career path. Assessing Barriers to Education (ABE) is simple to take and can be easily scored and interpreted. Each assessment contains 40 statements that describe a person's barriers to educational attainment. Each statement asks the test taker to describe their main concerns about working to attain further education. ABE also includes scoring directions, a scoring profile, an interpretation guide, suggestions for overcoming specific barriers, and space to develop personal plans for furthering one's education.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Impact Publications
  • Phone: 800-361-1065 
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information) 
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

The Assessment of Functional Living Skills (AFLS)

Target Audience

  • Children, adolescents, and adults with developmental disabilities (focus on students with autism)

Features

  • Administration time: Varies
  • Scoring: Criterion related scores
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The AFLS is a criterion-referenced skills assessment tool, tracking system, and curriculum guide for teaching children, adolescents, and adults with developmental disabilities the essential skills they need in order to achieve the most independent outcomes. Educators, professionals, and parents/caregivers using the AFLS report positive results almost immediately. The AFLS spans all areas critical to the development of functional living skills (Basic, Home, School, Community, Vocational, and Independent).

Contact/Purchase Information

  • WPS Publish
  • Phone: 844-378-4918 
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information) 
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

B

Barkley Deficits in Executive Functioning Scale (BDEFS)

Target Audience

  • Adults 18-81 years

Features

  • Administration time: 15-20 minutes, Long Form; 4-5 minutes, Short Form
  • Description: The Barkley Deficits in Executive Functioning Scales (BDEFS) is an empirically-based tool for evaluating dimensions of adult executive functioning in daily life. It offers an ecologically-valid snapshot of the capacities involved in time management; organization and problem solving; self-restraint; self-motivation, and self-regulation of emotions. A special feature is an Adult ADHD Risk Index, in the Long Form.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Stoelting Co.
  • Phone: 630-860-9775 
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information) 
  • Available at SERC Library: No

Barriers to Employment Success Inventory (BESI), Fifth Edition

Target Audience

  • High school students to adults
  • Reading Level: 8th Grade

Features

  • Administration time: 20-30 minutes, individual
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The Barriers to Employment Success Inventory (BESI) is a self-assessment tool that gives individuals a quick and easy way to identify the hurdles and obstacles that stand in the way of job success. It not only helps people conduct a more effective job search, it helps them be more successful on the job and to identify barriers and challenges to obtaining and succeeding on a job. It is comprised of 50 items rated on a four-point scale. The BESI assesses the following factors which may act as barriers to employment: personal and financial, emotional and physical, career decision making and planning, job seeking knowledge, and education and training.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Phone: 800-228-0810 or 563-589-1000
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information) 
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

Basic Skills Locator Test (BSLT)

Target Audience

  • Individuals ages 15 to adults who are functioning below a 12th grade level

Features

  • Administration time: Less than 45 minutes, individual or group administration
  • Scoring: Computer scoring
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The Basic Skills Locator Test (BSLT) is designed to assess a student’s functional skill levels in math and language. Correlated to the Department of Labor’s math and language hierarchy, the Basic Skills Locator Test generates a reliable snapshot of a student’s current General Education Development (GED) and grade level.
  • Other: Scores may be compared to math and language requirements in selected career areas.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Piney Mountain Press, Inc.
  • Phone: 800-255-3127 
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information) 
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

Becker Work Adjustment Profile, Second Edition (BWAP-2)

Target Audience

  • Ages 12 through adult
  • Students with intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, emotional disabilities, and physical disabilities

Features

  • Administration time: 20 minutes
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Description: The BWAP-2 is a practical and easy-to-use rating scale and planning tool that is designed for use with individuals with disabilities who are in transition from school to work or post-secondary training. It assesses work adjustment in four work-related areas: work habits/attitudes, interpersonal relations, cognitive skills, and work performance skills. With the BWAP-2 you can accurately determine which of six placement work programs an individual will be successful at: day care, work activity, low sheltered, high sheltered, transitional, or community/competitive. The BWAP-2 also determines the domains requiring supports and level of assistance: limited, low, moderate, high, or extensive work supports an individual will need to be successful.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Pro-Ed
  • Phone: 800-897-3202
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC-3), Third Edition

Target Audience

  • Ages 2-21

Features

  • Administration time: 10-20 minutes; individual
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Computer generated or manual
  • Online: May be utilized through telepractice – Q-global software system
  • Description: The BASC-3 is a comprehensive set of rating scales and forms. The BASC-3 helps you understand the behaviors and emotions of children and adolescents.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Pearson Assessments
  • Phone: 800-627-7271 
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information) 
  • Available at SERC Library: No

BASC-3 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BASC-3 BESS)

Target Audience

  • Grades Preschool through 12
  • Reading Level: Parent Form – 6th Grade; Student Form – 2nd Grade

Features

  • Administration time: 5-10 minutes; individual
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Computer generated or manual
  • Online: May be utilized through telepractice – Q-global software system
  • Description: The BASC-3 BESS offers a reliable, quick, and systematic way to determine behavioral and emotional strengths and weaknesses of children and adolescents in preschool through high school.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Pearson Assessments
  • Phone: 800-627-7271 
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No

Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function®, Second Edition (BRIEF®2)

Target Audience

  • Ages 5-18; children with learning disabilities and attention disorders, traumatic brain injuries, lead exposure, pervasive developmental disorders, depression, and other developmental, neurological, psychiatric, and medical conditions
  • There is also a Preschool and Adult version.

Features

  • Administration time: 10 minutes
  • Scoring: Paper and pencil
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Online: Online administration and scoring via PARiConnect
  • Description: The BRIEF®2 assesses executive function behaviors in the school and home environments. It is a questionnaire developed for parents and teachers of school-age children. The BRIEF®2 has 3 domains that evaluate cognitive, behavioral, and emotional regulation.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • PAR, Inc.
  • Phone: 800-331-8378 
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information) 
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes (The Library has the BRIEF®-Preschool Version (BRIEF®-P), the BRIEF®-Self-Report Version (BRIEF®-SR), the BRIEF®2, and the BRIEF®2-ADHD Form).

BRIGANCE® Transition Skills Inventory (TSI 2)

Target Audience

  • Middle and High school students

Features

  • Administration time: Varies
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Description: The TSI 2 is a collection of assessments designed to identify each student’s unique transition goals and monitor progress toward these goals. The inventory consists of more than 100 assessments to support formal transition planning for middle and high school students as they prepare for life after high school.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Curriculum Associates
  • Phone: 800-225-0248 
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

Building A Bridge from School to Adult Life: A Resource Manual for Middle & High School Students and Their Families

Target Audience

  • Ages 11-21
  • All disabilities

Features

  • Administration time: Varies depending on what activity is being completed
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The Building a Bridge From School to Adult Life manual provides invaluable information that will help teachers, parents, and students set meaningful transition goals for life after high school. There are assessment checklists of skills in the major areas of transition, including: postsecondary education/training, employment, social skills, self-advocacy, assistive technology, recreation, leisure and independent living.
  • Other: Written by Connecticut’s Transition Task Force.

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C

Campbell Interest and Skill Survey (CISS)

Target Audience

  • 15+ years
  • Reading Level: 6th grade

Features

  • Administration time: 25 minutes
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Computer scoring, mail-in, internet or optical scan
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The CISS measures self-reported vocational interests and skills. Similar to traditional interest inventories, the CISS interest scales reflect an individual's attraction for specific occupational areas.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No

Career Ability Placement Survey (CAPS)

Target Audience

  • Grades 8-12, college, and adult
  • All disabilities

Features

  • Administration time: 50 minutes
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Self-scoring, computer scoring software available
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The CAPS is designed to measure the cognitive abilities required for entry level jobs in fourteen occupational clusters. CAPS consists of eight, five-minute tests: mechanical reasoning, spatial relations, verbal reasoning, language usage, word knowledge, perceptual speed and accuracy, manual speed and dexterity, and mathematical ability.
  • Other: Compatible assessments: COPS Interest Inventory and COPES Work Values Survey can be used in conjunction with CAPS for a comprehensive vocational assessment.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • EdITS
  • Phone: 800-416-1666
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

Career Assessment Inventory™ | The Enhanced Version (CAI)

Target Audience

  • Individuals 15 years and older
  • Reading Level: 8th grade

Features

  • Administration time: 35–40 minutes (370 items with 5-point rating scales)
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Paper-and-pencil, computer, Internet administration
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The Career Assessment Inventory™ Enhanced Version (CAI) is an occupational interest inventory for college-bound and non-college-bound individuals.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Pearson Assessments
  • Phone: 800-627-7271
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No

Career Assessment Inventory™ - Vocational Version (CAI)

Target Audience

  • Individuals 15 years and older
  • Reading Level: 8th grade

Features

  • Administration time: 30-35 minutes
  • Language other than English: Spanish and French for Canada
  • Scoring: CD software, mail-in scoring service, and optical scan scoring
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The Career Assessment Inventory™ The Vocational Version (CAI) is a vocational interest inventory for individuals who plan to enter careers immediately after high school or to attend community college or trade school. CAI compares an individual's vocational interests to 90+ specific careers that reflect a range of positions in today's workforce – including skilled trades and technical and service professions – that require 2 years or less of postsecondary training.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Pearson Assessments
  • Phone: 800-627-7271
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No

Career Assessment Battery Multimedia CD (CAB)

Target Audience

  • All populations (includes at-risk, special needs, college prep and tech prep)

Features

  • Administration time: Varies
  • Scoring: CD generated
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The CAB is a self-directed inventory considers a broad range of factors including: work areas, work activities, aptitudes, work situations, indoor/outdoor, physical skills, workload, education level, math/language, data/people/things, work environment, and school subjects. Results may be printed, saved or edited at any time. The CAB uses a high-interest multi-media presentation CD to bring career assessment to life as participants see and hear live action occupational situations while making informed choices.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Piney Mountain Press, Inc.
  • Phone: 800-225-3127
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No

Career Cruising 

Target Audience

  • High school students to adults

Features

  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Administrative features of this system allow educators to track student progress and generate reports
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: Career Cruising is a self-exploration and planning program that helps people of all ages achieve their potential in school, career, and life. It is a complete interactive guidance system including: assessment tools, occupation profiles, and postsecondary education information that helps students through career awareness, exploration, and planning process. Over 900 video clips are provided including interviews with professionals in identified fields of work. The audio component is closed captioned.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Career Cruising
  • Phone: 800-965-8541 ext. 33
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No

Career Decision-Making System-Revised (CDM-R)

Target Audience

  • 12 years to adults
  • Reading Level: 4th grade (level 1) and 6th grade (level 2)

Features

  • Administration time: 20-40 minutes; individuals/group paper/pencil
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Self-Scoring, online-based scoring available
  • Description: The CDM-R is an interest inventory that provides an assessment of career interests, job choices, school subjects, future plans, values, and abilities.
    • Level 1: ideal for middle and junior high school students, and individuals with limited reading ability. It features 96 Interest Survey items that are easy to read and a booklet that includes the CDM survey itself and interpretive information with job charts for the six CDM-R career interest areas.
    • Level 2: ideal for high school students, college students, and adults with average or better reading ability. A Survey Booklet consists of 120 updated and gender-neutral items, and an Interpretive Folder suggests relevant jobs, college majors, and training programs.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Pearson Assessments
  • Phone: 800-627-7271
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

Career Directions Inventory (CDI)

Target Audience

  • Ages 14-adult

Features

  • Administration time: 30-45 minutes
  • Language other than English: French
  • Scoring: Computer scoring
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The Career Directions Inventory (CDI) is a flexible, cost-effective career assessment that is designed to facilitate educational and career exploration. The CDI is suitable for a wide spectrum of the population, not only those headed for post-secondary education or a professional career. The CDI can be used for career and educational counseling for high school, college, and university students, career planning for adults, career transitions, and career exploration in a wide variety of fields, including business, professional, service, and technical occupations.

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Career Exploration Inventory, Fifth Edition (CEI)

Target Audience

  • High school students to adults

Features

  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The CEI explores and plans three major areas of life: work, leisure activities, and learning. Individuals will reflect on 128 activities and consider their past, present, and future interest in them. Scores connect to 16 career interest areas with related jobs, education and training options, and leisure activities listed for each interest area.

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Careers for Me - Plus

Target Audience

  • Grades 6-9

Features

  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The Careers for Me Plus is a paper-pencil assessment that encourages students to think about their interests to guide them towards careers. The assessment uses 6 career clusters: environment and agriculture, arts and communication, business and management, industrial and engineering systems, health services, and human resources/services.
  • Other: Additional titles include: Career for Me II (Grades 3-7), Careers for Me SN (lower functioning special needs students, Careers for Me Junior (Grades K-3). DVDs also available for some titles.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Boulden Publishing
  • Phone: 800-238-8433
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No

The Career Key – Discovery

Target Audience

  • Middle school through college and working adults (new Transition Version)

Features

  • Administration time: 5 minutes online
  • Language other than English: No
  • Scoring: Self-scoring; on-line scoring
  • Online: (Career Key Discovery) purchase available
  • Description: The Career Key is a short, self-directed online assessment that delivers rapid insights into student and client career decision needs. Measuring three dimensions of career decision status, this reliable and valid inventory identifies individual needs and barriers, estimates service levels, and recommends practical action steps to both student or client and advisor.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Career Key, Inc.
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No

Career Intake and Counseling Scale 

Target Audience

  • High School – Adult

Features

  • Administration time: 20 minutes individual or group administration
  • Scoring: Self-scoring – online version offers automated scoring
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The Career Intake and Counseling Scale provides a structured assessment for identifying an individual’s most significant and urgent career development needs and developing treatment plans that will address those needs. Users taking the assessment are asked to consider 50 statements that relate to major deficiencies that prevent people from attaining employment success. These responses are scored and recorded in a Career Intake Profile table that identifies the user’s top career-related concerns and barriers. This includes:
    • Personal barriers
    • Education and training
    • Career development
    • Job search
    • Job transition

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Career Interests, Preferences, and Strengths Inventory (CIPSI)

Target Audience

  • 5th grade through adult
  • Reading Level: 3rd grade

Features

  • Administration time: 15-30 minutes; individual or group
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Self-scoring, computer generated
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The Career Interests, Preferences, and Strengths Inventory (CIPSI) is a career exploration tool that identifies personal interests, strengths, general preferences, and favored careers. Through the CIPSI analysis, the student's choices are aligned with the U.S. Department of Education 16 Career Clusters. The inventory provides students with reports that help them to understand how their interests are linked to future career choices.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • PRO-ED, Inc.
  • Phone: 800-897-3202
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

Career Orientation Placement and Evaluation (COPES)

Target Audience

  • Grades 7-Adult
  • Fully compatible with screen reader applications
  • Large print available
  • Fully compatible with screen reader applications

Features

  • Administration time: 20 minutes; individual
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Self-scoring or web-based scoring
  • Description: The Career Orientation Placement and Evaluation Survey (COPES) measures personal values in the workplace. This survey is the perfect tool for aligning an examinee’s personal values to careers. Each of the eight values scales are keyed to the 14 COPSystem VIA Career Clusters helping examinees to find occupational areas that match their personal values. Aligning your values with your career is an important predictor of occupational success and satisfaction.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • EdITS
  • Phone: 800-416-1666
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

Career Priorities Profile (CPP) 3rd Edition

Target Audience

  • Middle school students to adult
  • Reading Level: 6th grade

Features

  • Scoring: Paper and pencil
  • Description: The CCP- 3rd Edition empowers individuals to identify priorities and evaluate their career or job choices based on those priorities. The CPP provides a structured method for career exploration that leads individuals to identify whether their chosen careers are compatible with their personal and work priorities. The CPP contains steps in which individuals gather information about their preferences regarding work, prioritizing them, and relating those priorities to their careers of interest.

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Casey Life Skills (CLS)

Target Audience

  • Youth between the ages of 14 and 21

Features

  • Administration time: 30-40 minutes
  • Language other than English: Spanish; French
  • Scoring: Computer scoring
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The Casey Life Skills (CLS) is a free tool that assesses the behaviors and competencies youth need to achieve their long term goals. It aims to set youth on their way toward developing healthy, productive lives. Examples of the life skills CLS helps youth self-evaluate include:
    • Maintaining healthy relationships
    • Work and study habits
    • Planning and goal-setting
    • Using community resources
    • Daily living activities
    • Budgeting and paying bills
    • Computer literacy
    • Their permanent connections to caring adults
  • Assessment supplements available for those with specific life skill needs

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Checklist of Adaptive Living Skills (CALS)

Target Audience

  • Individuals with or without disabilities from infancy to adulthood

Features

  • Administration time: 60 minutes
  • Description: The Checklist of Adaptive Living Skills (CALS) is a criterion-referenced, individually administered measure of approximately 800 specific adaptive behaviors related to self-care, personal independence, and adaptive functioning in leisure, work, community, and residential environments.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Riverside Insights
  • Phone: 800-323-9540 
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No

Children’s Kitchen Task Assessment (CKTA)

Target Audience

  • Children 8-12

Features

  • Description: The (Children's Kitchen Task Assessment (CKTA) is a public domain instrument that you may use without a fee. The CKTA seeks to assess executive function (initiation, sequencing, safety judgment, organization, and working memory) in children 8-12 through the child’s performance of the novel task, making play dough.
  • Because delivering the cues is a skill that takes practice and influences the scoring of the child’s performance, it is recommended that you practice by videotaping and scoring with another professional for at least 90% inter-rater reliability before using the CKTA with your target population, ages 8-12.

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C.I.T.E. Learning Styles

Target Audience

  • Middle & High School Students

Features

  • Language other than English: Spanish-Online version
  • Scoring: Students rate themselves on 45 items, total their score and come up with a major and minor learning style. Scores on the Learning Styles Inventory fall into one of three categories: major, minor, and negligible
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The C.I.T.E. Learning Styles Instrument helps educators determine their students’ learning styles. This instrument is divided into 3 main areas: information gathering/receiving, social working conditions, and expressiveness preference.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Piney Mountain
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No

College Survival and Success Scale™ (CSSS) – 2nd Edition

Target Audience

  • Intended for use in high schools, community colleges, learning services centers, student support services, college counseling centers, retention services programs, pre-major advising centers, college orientation programs, Talent Search programs, Upward Bound programs, peer-mentoring programs, employment programs, rehabilitation counseling programs, first-year experience programs, academic advising centers, college career and placement offices, military-to-college transition programs, prisons, and any agency that works with clients or students interested in attending a college or university.

Features

  • Administration time: 20 minutes, Individual or Group administration
  • Scoring: Self-scoring and online
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The College Survival and Success Scale™ (CSSS)- 2nd edition measures a student’s ability to get the most from postsecondary education and training and use it to build a successful future. The CSSS is designed to help them identify potential pitfalls to their educational success and implement strategies to overcome them. It covers five scales important for staying in and doing well in college: commitment to education, self- and resource-management skills, interpersonal and social skills, academic success skills, and career planning skills.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Impact Publications
  • Phone: 703-361-7300
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

Comprehensive Executive Function Inventory CEFI- Adult

Target Audience

  • Adults 18 years and older

Features

Contact/Purchase Information

  • WPS Publish
  • Phone: 800-648-8857
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No

COPSystem VIA Career Guidance System (California Occupational Preference Survey)

Target Audience

  • Grade 6 to adults
  • Students with all disabilities
  • Compatible with screen readers and large print version available

Features

  • Administration time: COPS (interests) 20 minutes, CAPS (abilities) 50 minutes, COPES (work values) 20-30 minutes
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Self-scoring (paper) or web-based online scoring
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The COPSystem VIA consists of three assessments that measure Values (COPES), Interests (COPS), Abilities (CAPS) which match to 14 career clusters. It also provides a link to the Career Briefs Database if using the online version.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • EdITS
  • Phone: 800-416-1666
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No

COPSystem Picture Inventory of Careers (COPS-PIC) (California Occupational Preference Survey)

Target Audience

  • Elementary-12th grade
  • Students with reading or language difficulties
  • Students with low academic or career motivation

Features

  • Administration time: 30 minutes
  • Language other than English: Can be used with non-English speakers
  • Scoring: Self-scoring 
  • Description: The COPS-PIC illustrates a variety of occupational activities, using realistic pictures of people in job related roles. This form of the COPS is designed to help assess interests for examinees with reading or language difficulties. It is also helpful for individuals with low academic or career motivation as well as non-reading and non-English speaking adults. Scores are linked to 14 COPSystem VIA Career Clusters and provide access to information about thousands of occupations.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • EdITS
  • Phone: 800-416-1666
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

CT CORE Transition Skills Scope & Sequence

Target Audience

  • Elementary through High School students with disabilities

Features

  • Administration time: Varies
  • Scoring: Self-scoring 
  • Description: The CT CORE Transition Skills can be utilized when developing annual transition IEP goals and objectives for students. The CT CORE Transition Skills Scope & Sequence were designed to assist educators in determining which components of the skills need to be assessed and determining potential skills areas where additional information is needed.

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Culture-Free Self-Esteem Inventories, Third Edition (CFSEI-3)

Target Audience

  • Ages 6-18

Features

  • Administration time: 15-20 minutes; individual or group
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Description: The CFSEI-3 is a completely revised and updated tool that assesses self-esteem in a culturally fair manner, using a set of self-reported inventories.
  • Other: There are three forms: child, adolescent, and adult. All three forms provide a global self-esteem quotient. The intermediate and adolescent forms provide self-esteem scores in four areas: academic, general, parental/home, and social. The adolescent form also provides an additional self-esteem score: personal self-esteem. A defensive measure is also provided to assess the extent to which an individual’s responses are guarded.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Pro-Ed
  • Phone: 800-897-3202
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

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Delis Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS)

Target Audience

  • Ages 8-89 years

Features

  • Administration time: Variable depending on subtest selected, full battery 90 minutes
  • Scoring: Software-based scoring and reporting is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, & 7 only
  • Norms: Normed on over 1,500 individuals demographically and regionally matched with the U.S. population
  • Description: Nationally standardized set of tests to evaluate higher level cognitive functions in both children and adults. The D-KEFS game-like format is engaging for examinees, encouraging optimal performance without providing "right/wrong" feedback that can create frustration in some children and adults.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Pearson
  • Costs: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No