Connecticut State Department of Education

Teacher of the Year Ceremony
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 I-L

I

IDEAS: Interest Determination, Exploration and Assessment System™

Target Audience

  • Age 13 years-adults
  • Reading Level: 6th grade

Features

  • Administration time: 35 minutes; individual or group
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Self-scoring or local software
  • Description: The IDEAS assessment should be used as an introduction to career exploration for students and adults
  • Other: It is designed to be used with career exploration and guidance units. This tool helps develop awareness of possible career choices. Sixteen (16) basic scales are organized according to the RIASEC themes (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional)

Contact/Purchase Information

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

Independent Living Assessment for Life Skills

Target Audience

  • Reading Level: 5th grade

Features

  • Description: The Independent Living Assessment for Life Skills is The Independent Living Skills (ILS) System is a software assisted, systematic and competency-based approach to life skills training. The system combines timesaving technology with a comprehensive assessment and reporting package to produce skill plans and transition plans tailored to the individual’s needs.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Daniel Kids
  • Phone: 904-296-1055
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No

J

Job Observation and Behavior Scale: Opportunity for Self-Determination (JOBS:OSD)

Target Audience

  • Students and adults with special needs in entry-level jobs

Features

  • Administration time: 20-30 minutes
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Description: The JOBS:OSD is designed to assist employers, educators, rehabilitation counselors, and other professionals involved in providing transitional work training and rehabilitation. It provides an understanding of work performance and support needs, from the self-perspective of adult employees and students.
    • This self-assessment is a critical component of success in long-term employment and community living. Information derived from JOBS:OSD provides employers with a means of making reasonable accommodations for employees, necessary for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Rehabilitation Act. JOBS: OSD links self-determination to critical vocational behaviors, and the support needs of student and adult employees in community employment settings. It allows educators and rehabilitation professionals to understand the perspective of the employee, and establishes a communication bridge between supervisors and workers, which reduces workplace ambiguity to establish person-specific instruction, training and support programs that comply with transitional IEP requirements under IDEA, and with IWRP and ISP requirements under the Rehabilitation Act.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Stoelting Company
  • Phone: 630-860-9775
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

K

Kolb Experiential Learning Profile (KELP)

Target Audience

  • 15+

Features

  • Scoring: Online
  • Description: The KELP is a self-administered assessment that you complete online. The inventory takes 10–15 minutes to complete. Once you submit your answers, you will receive an email with an extensive personal report, which includes:
  1. How you use the ideal cycle of learning in your life and work
  2. Your typical learning style from the nine ways of learning 
  3. Your learning flexibility, which allows you to expand your ability to use other styles for full-cycle learning applications for what you have learned about yourself to increase your learning power, become more effective, and continue to mature throughout life.

Contact/Purchase Information

Kuder Career Planning System

Target Audience

  • Pre K-College or Postsecondary

Features

  • Administration time: 4-10 minutes for each assessment
  • Scoring: Computer scoring
  • Language other than English: Spanish and Arabic
  • Description: The Kuder career assessments are regarded as best-in-class for their validity and reliability. Based on ongoing research dating back to 1938, our assessments provide accurate results that serve as a powerful springboard for career planning. Our assessments don’t define who you are or what your career should be, but they’re essential in helping you narrow your search and consider options you may not have previously considered. Evidenced-based career assessments that are available:
    • Kuder Career Interests Assessment
    • Kuder Skills Confidence Assessment
    • Super’s Work Values Inventory-revised

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Kuder Assessments
  • Phone: (800-314-8972
  • Cost: Yes (contact company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No

L

LCCE Knowledge and Performance Batteries (Life Centered Career Education)

Target Audience

  • Grades 7-12
  • Students with learning disabilities, mild cognitive disabilities, and students at risk

Features

  • Scoring: Self-scoring or computer scoring
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: This is a comprehensive functional curriculum based on classroom, home and community environments. The LCCE helps teachers prepare students to function independently and productively as family members, citizens and workers. The LCE assessment instruments are critical to the success of the curriculum, as they enable you to:
    • Establish present levels of student competency
    • Determine IEP (Individual Education Program) goals and objectives
    • Guide program planning and instructional content
    • Measure student progress toward instructional goals
    • LCCE includes three types of field-tested assessment instruments competency rating scale, knowledge battery, and performance battery

Contact/Purchase Information

Learning/Working Styles Inventory

Target Audience

  • All populations including students with special needs, at-risk students, and college and tech prep
  • Reading free

Features

  • Administration time: Varies
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Computer scoring
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The Learning/Working Styles Inventory considers learning, environment and work styles critical to academic, training and job success. Students explore their own learning styles to find out how to improve their study and classroom skills

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Piney Mountain Press, Inc.
  • Phone: 800-255-3127
  • Cost: Yes (contact company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No

Life Skills Inventory

Target Audience

  • Students with disabilities (focus on students with autism)

Features

  • Administration time: Varies
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Description: The Life Skills Inventory, developed by the Division of Autism Spectrum Disorder Services at the Connecticut State Department of Social Services (DSS) is a brief inventory addressing the following skill areas: personal care, health care, food management, housekeeping, household and personal safety, household maintenance, money management/banking, community safety, transportation, phone, internet, time management, career/employment, community skills/resources, leisure skills, legal issues, social skills, and healthy relationships.

Contact/Purchase Information