Connecticut State Department of Education

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Quality of Life Questionnaire (QLQ)

Target Audience

  • Ages 18 and older
  • General education population including students at risk

Features

  • Administration time: 30 minutes
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The QLQ measures the relationship between an individual’s quality of life and other behaviors or afflictions, such as physical health, psychological health and alcohol or other substance use. Results highlight areas of the individual’s life that may require change to alleviate specific symptoms. Its efficient design makes the QLQ an ideal screening tool for employee assistance, wellness, stress, weight control or any other program in which people desire change.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • MHS Inc.
  • Phone: 800-456-3003
  • Cost: Yes (contact company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

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Reading-Free Vocational Interest Inventory: Third Edition (RFVII-3)

Target Audience

  • Grade 5-adult
  • Intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, adult disadvantaged, individuals enrolled in alternative or vocational/career training programs

Features

  • Administration time: 15-30 minutes, individual or group
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Description: The RFVII-3 uses pictures of individuals engaged in different occupations to measure the vocational likes and dislikes of students and adults.
    • Reading-free, self-report vocational interest inventory
    • Matches vocational interests with potential careers and career clusters
    • Paper and online administration options with online scoring
    • 80 full-color, beautifully illustrated items contain three images of people engaged in a wide range of occupations
    • Aligns interests with the 16 Career Clusters defined by the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Labor and People/Data/Things classification
    • Generates a thorough individualized Interpretive Report containing interactive links to O*NET Online resources from each of the 16 Career Clusters

Contact/Purchase Information

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

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Scales of Independent Behavior-Revised (SIB-R)

Target Audience

  • Infancy –80 years and older
  • Appropriate for wide range of age and developmental levels

Features

  • Administration time: 45-60 minutes for full scale, 15-20 minutes for short form or early development form
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Description: The SIB-R was designed to measure functional independence and adaptive functioning in school, home, employment and community settings. It provides a comprehensive, norm-referenced assessment of adaptive and maladaptive behavior.
  • Other: A version is also available for use with individuals with visual impairments.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Riverside Insights
  • Phone: 800-323-9540
  • Cost: Yes (contact company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library : Yes

Self-Directed Search – Student Edition

Target Audience

  • Grades 6-Grade 12
  • Reading Level: 5th grade

Features

  • Administration time: 25-35 minutes for each of four sections
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Computer scoring
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The SDS- Student Version is a career assessment and exploration tool designed and tailored specifically to middle school, junior high, and high school students. The new StudentSDS allows students to learn about programs of study and careers that best match their personalities.
    • Includes activities for classroom use.
    • Captures students' personalities, skills, and interests.
    • Guides students as they explore occupations and programs of study that might best suit them and lead to job satisfaction.
    • Includes a Professional Manual with Teacher's Guide to assist practitioners with administration, scoring, and interpretation.
    • Developed using the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model and aligns with eight Individual Career and Academic Plan (ICAP) Quality Indicators: self-awareness, career awareness, postsecondary aspirations, postsecondary options, environmental expectations, academic planning, employability skills, and financial literacy.
    • Online administration and scoring and new interactive digital reports (see sample reports under "Resources" tab) are available via the mobile-friendly Self-Directed Search website, which generates a fully customized report that allows users to sort, filter, and print results.

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Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, Fifth Edition

Target Audience

  • Individuals 16 years and older
  • Reading Level: 5th grade

Features

  • Administration time: 35-50 minutes (185 multiple-choice items)
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Self-scoring or computer scoring
  • Description: The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire was designed to measure personality traits and to provide support for vocational guidance, hiring and promotional commendations.

Contact/Purchase Information

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

Social Networks: A Communication Inventory for Individuals with Complex Communication Needs and Their Communication Partners

Target Audience

  • For professionals who work with family members and individuals with complex communication needs

Features

  • Language other than English: granted permission (without cost) for the Social Networks Manual and Inventory booklet to be translated into several languages, including Catalan, Chinese, Danish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. Most are now available. For more information, contact Sarah Blackstone.
  • Description: The Social Network Package is an assessment and intervention planning tool. The Manual and Inventory Booklet are designed to help professionals work with family members and individuals who have complex communication needs. Use this resource to help determine appropriate communication strategies and technologies for clients to use with their communication partners. This program is designed to help professionals work with family members and individuals with complex communication needs to determine the most appropriate technologies and communication strategies for communication with partners in various contexts.

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Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS) Rating Scales 

Target Audience

  • Ages 3-18
  • Students with challenges in behavior and interpersonal skills

Features

  • Administration time: 10-25 minutes for each questionnaire
  • Scoring: Self-scoring or computer scoring
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Description: The SSIS provides a comprehensive picture of social behaviors. Three rating forms (teacher, parent, and student) offer flexibility. Helps you quickly plan appropriate interventions
    • Measure social skills: communication, cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, engagement, and self-control.
    • Assess academic competence in reading achievement, math achievement, and motivation to learn.
    • Analyze competing problem behaviors: externalizing, bullying, hyperactivity and inattention, internalizing, autism spectrum.
    • Get a comprehensive picture across school, home, and community settings with teacher, parent, and student forms.
  • Norms: Standardized on a national sample of over 4,000. It is also the first social skills rating scale to provide separate norms for boys and girls ages 3-18 and for elementary students with and without disabilities.

Contact/Purchase Information

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

Socio-Sexual Knowledge and Attitudes Assessment Tool—Revised (SSKAAR-R)

Target Audience

  • Ages 15-adults
  • Students with intellectual disabilities, those whose language is limited, and with general populations

Features

  • Administration time: Untimed, open-ended
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Description: The Socio-Sexual Knowledge and Attitudes Assessment Tool-Revised (SSKAAT-R) is a valuable tool for educators, counselors and social workers–both as an assessment and as an educational tool–for sex education issues. It is useful with individuals with Intellectual Disabilities, those whose language is limited, and with general populations.
  • SSKAAT-R is primarily designed as a criterion-based assessment of what the individual knows and believes. Comparison norms are provided.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • Stoelting Company
  • Phone: 630-860-9700
  • Cost: Yes (contact company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

Street Survival Skills Questionnaire (SSSQ)

Target Audience

  • Middle school and high school students with intellectual disabilities

Features

  • Administration time: 45 minutes
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Description: The SSSQ Questionnaire is designed to assess fundamental community living and prevocational skills of students served by rehabilitation centers, work activity centers or by prevocational/vocational training programs in school settings. The SSSQ can serve as a baseline measure of adaptive behavior from which an individual program plan may be formulated. In addition, the individual's progress over time may be monitored with periodic reassessment. The effectiveness of various training strategies may also be evaluated by the relative changes in improved functional skills of individuals participating in training or curriculum activities.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • McCarron-Dial Systems
  • Phone: 214-634-2863
  • Cost: Yes (contact company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

Supports Intensity Scale (SIS)

Target Audience

  • Ages 16-70+
  • Individuals with developmental disabilities

Features

  • Administration time: Between 2 and 2.5 hours – 12 page interview and Profile form
  • Scoring: Self-scoring and computer scoring available
  • Online: Yes
  • Training Required: Yes
  • Description: The SIS-A is a standardized assessment tool designed to measure the pattern and intensity of supports that a person aged 16 years and older with intellectual disability requires to be successful in community settings. The SIS-A has all the domains required to successfully identify post-secondary support needs of a student with intellectual disability, mandated by the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA).

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TAP – Functional Work Skills Assessment

Target Audience

  • Grades 9-12
  • Students with intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, blind, deaf/hard of hearing
  • Reading free

Features

  • Administration time: 10 tests approximately 2.5 hours
  • Scoring: Computer scoring
  • Description: The TAP is a functional vocational aptitude assessment that requires no reading and can benefit all individuals. TAP is hands on and computer correlated to the best career matches. Through a series of ten tests that use "real" tools and "real" tasks to measure an individual's functional aptitudes and strengths, TAP is a practical and proven way for you to provide "real" advice for your clients. TAP is a proven system that is fast and easy to administer and evaluate.

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Transferrable Skills Scale Second Addition

Target Audience

  • High school–Adult

Features

  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The Transferable Skills Scale is a brief assessment designed to identify an individual's strongest transferable skills. Based on the data, people, things, and ideas model used extensively by career counselors and the U.S. Department of Labor, it asks individuals to rate their skill levels on 96 tasks. The resulting score helps define their skill levels in eight categories: analytical, numerical, interpersonal, organizational, physical, informational, communicative and creative skills. Each skill set is also specifically linked to O*NET job titles, and an Occupational Exploration worksheet helps individuals further research the jobs that match their transferable skills.

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Transition Behavior Scale (TBS-3) Third Edition

Target Audience

  • Ages 12-18

Features

  • Administration time: 15 minutes
  • Scoring: Self-scoring/Computer Scoring available
  • Description: The Transition Behavior Scale-Third Edition (TBS-3)
    measures a student’s readiness for transition to employment and independent living. The greatest threat to success in employment and independent living is behavior which is inappropriate for those situations. The TBS-3 provides a measure of those behavioral characteristics most predictive of behavior in society in general and employment specifically. The TBS-3 subscales measure a student’s behavior in the areas of Work Related, Interpersonal Relations, and Social/Community Expectations.

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Transition Planning Inventory (TPI-3) Third Edition

Target Audience

  • Ages 14-21 years old
  • All disabilities

Features

  • Administration time: 15-30 minutes; individual
  • Language other than English: Spanish, Chinese
  • Scoring: Self-scoring or computer scoring
  • Description: The (TPI-3) provides school personnel with a systematic way to address critical transition planning areas that are mandated by the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004. It also accounts for individual student preferences, interests, strengths, and needs. Key information is gathered from students, parents, guardians, and school personnel through the use of core and specialized rating scales and open-ended questions. The TPI-3 can serve as the main vehicle for identifying transition needs or can complement existing procedures that are being used in a school district. In many cases, it can serve as a framework for acquiring more detailed assessment information. The most important outcomes are identifying transition preferences, interests, strengths, and needs, regardless of methodology; developing necessary plans; and acting on resultant goals.
  • Other: Computer version is available with a “read aloud” function.

Contact/Purchase Information

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

Transition Rating Scales (TRS)

Target Audience

  • TRS 1.0 designed for mild disabilities of any age
  • TRS 2.0 designed for moderate to severe and multiple disability groups of any age
  • TRS 3.0 designed for learners with severe/multiple impairments.

Features

  • Administration time: Varies
  • Language other than English: Spanish
  • Scoring: Self-scoring or answers can be entered onto an online generator for scoring
  • Online: Assessment Report generator only
  • Description: The TRS consists of forty-seven items that are rated on a two-point scale. There is a worksheet indicating student preferences and interests across five sub-scale areas: employment, home living, recreation and leisure, community participation, and postsecondary education. Scores are provided on each subscale and a total performance score is given.

Contact/Purchase Information

  • ESTR Publications
  • Phone: 614-940-9996
  • Cost: Yes (visit company website for more information)
  • Available at SERC Library: Yes

Transition-to-Work Inventory (TWI)

Target Audience

  • High school-adult
  • Reading Level: 7th grade

Features

  • Administration time: 25 minutes; individual or group
  • Scoring: Self-scoring
  • Online: Yes
  • Description: The TWI is for individuals with little or no work experience can identify their job options and make their career transitions more effective and rewarding. Individuals will review a list of 96 non-work activities and rate how much they like each one. Simple self-scoring allows them to connect their answers to the 16 career clusters, which then lead to a list of related jobs, self-employment options, and paths for education and training.

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