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 M-P

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The Major Experience

Target Audience

  • Grades 9-12+

Features

  • Administration time: Each assessment varies from 12-30 minutes
  • Scoring: Online
  • Description: The Major Experience is a website that is part of UCONN’s Institute for Student Success. The purpose is to assist all students to determine a college major through three components: exploring self (personality, values, strengths and skills), exploring careers, and exploring college majors. TME is designed to encourage the intentional exploration of majors in a holistic and interactive manner. Using a personalized approach, students are given the appropriate tools and support to choose a major(s) with confidence.

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Meyers-Briggs Strong Interest Inventory

Target Audience

  • Ages 14+

Features

  • Scoring: Online
  • Description: The Strong Interest Inventory® assessment provides robust insight into a person’s interests, so you can help them to consider potential careers, their educational path and the world of work. Built on psychologist John Holland’s theory, it’s backed by more than 80 years of research into how people of similar interests are employed, and what motivates individuals in the workplace. It delivers effective and powerful results that contribute to your students’ success.

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Microcomputer Evaluation of Careers and Academics (MECA)

Target Audience

  • Middle and high school students

Features

  • Administration time: Varies
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Computer scoring
  • Fourth grade reading level; audio option for individuals with limited reading skills
  • Still images with text for persons with hearing impairments
  • Description: The MECA is an age-appropriate transition career exploration and assessment system related to training, education and employment. The assessment components include: The Interest Indicator, Work Samples, Learning Assessment Program (LAPs), The Career Planner, Personal Responsibility and the Success Profiler.
  • Other: Components can be purchased separately; correlates to state standards; links to Guide for Occupational Exploration (GOE) and John Holland’s Scales for access to Occupational Information Network (O*NET) and other occupational information systems.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • The Conover Company
  • Phone: 888-933-1933
  • Cost: Yes (contact company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No

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O*NET (Occupational Information Network) OnLine Interest Profiler

Target Audience

  • Youth to adults

Features

  • Administration time: 10-30 minutes, depending on format
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The O*NET Program is the nation's primary source of occupational information. The O*NET Interest Profiler (IP) is a family of self-assessment career exploration tools that can help students discover the type of work activities and occupations that they would like and find exciting. Students identify and learn about broad interest areas most relevant to themselves. They can use their interest results to explore the world of work. The O*NET Interest Profiler is available in paper-and-pencil form, as well as online.

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Personal Preference Indicators: A Guide for Planning

Target Audience

  • The purpose of this guide is to assist you in planning with and for a person with a developmental disability.

Features

  • Administration time: Varies
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Description: The Personal Preference Indicators is not a checklist; it is a guide to accessing information about an individual’s preferences. The items listed are intended to be used as cues or prompts to remind you about important subjects to bring up in your informal talks with the individual. These informal conversations can give you an understanding of preferences from which to begin planning.

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PIC Pathfinder Pictorial Inventory of Careers

Target Audience

  • Middle school students-adults

Features

  • Administration time: 22 minutes
  • Scoring: Computer scoring
  • Reading free
  • Description: The Digital Pictorial Inventory of Careers is an affective domain interest assessment which requires no reading. PIC measures career interest by using Digital Quality Live Action Videos of REAL LIFE WORK scenes, instead of paper pencil tests. PIC is an excellent assessment for School-to-Career Transition Programs. PIC can be used by all students including special populations.
  • Other: There are five available versions for purchase.
    • Basic PIC Pathfinder
    • PIC Pathfinder Basic plus Computer Version
    • PIC Pathfinder Computer Version Only
    • PIC Pathfinder Site License Edition
    • PIC Pathfinder Site License Edition Plus Basic

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Snow Cloud Productions
  • Phone: 844-869-1516
  • Cost: Yes (contact company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: No

Picture Interest Career Survey (PICS) (Third Edition)

Target Audience

  • Middle school to adults
  • Students with learning disabilities and developmental disabilities and English language learners

Features

  • Administration time: 15 minutes; individual or group
  • Language other than English: Ideal for students with limited familiarity with English
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Description: The PICS presents students with 36 sets of three pictures and they choose which of the three portrayed occupations appears most interesting. PICS creates a profile of the student corresponding to RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional) and people, data, things and ideas. It then correlates to potential job matches and career information. This edition includes streamlined instructions, an updated design, some modified pictures for greater clarity, and expanded validity information.

Contact/Purchase Information

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

PIC Pathfinder- Career Interest Assessment

Target Audience

  • Middle and high school levels
  • Students whose skills are typically undetected by traditional testing measures

Features

  • Scoring: Computer scoring
  • Description: The PIC Pathfinder PIC Pathfinder is an affective domain interest inventory that measures a wide variety of career areas where individuals react to live action video depictions of real work situations.

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