SAMPLE TRANSITION ASSESSMENT TOOLS
Learning Styles Inventories
**Free!!!** Learning Styles Assessment- (University Learning Center –
Arizona), by Reed Mencke Ph.D. and Stacey Hartman M.A.
• Allows students’ to identify their learning style preferences across three
categories – Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic.
• http://thinktank.arizona.edu/sites/thinktank.arizona.edu/files/files/pdfs/Le
arning%20Styles%20Assessment%20fall%202013.pdf
**Free!!!** C.I.T.E. Learning Style Instrument- (Babich, Burdine, Albright,
and Randol, 1976)
• Assists students’ in determining their learning styles and provides a
major and minor learning style.
• Can be found at: http://www.wvabe.org/CITE/cite.pdf
Work Value Inventories
**Free!!!** AANE Employment Self-Inventory Scale
• Requires the individual to identify his/her ability to complete work tasks
in a variety of settings given a variety of variables.
• Categories include: physical work environment, social work
environment, work requirements, and work tasks.
• http://www.aane.org/docs/employment_self-inventory_scale.doc
**Free!!!** Job Seeker Planning Tool, Institute for Community Inclusion
One-Stop Disability Resource Manual
• Requires the individual to identify preferences regarding various work tasks,
work schedules, physical work environments, and social work environments.
• http://www.communityinclusion.org/article.php?article_id=119
o Click on “Download the Access for All Manual”, then print pages
219 and 220.
Career Interest Inventories
**Free!!!**O*NET Interest Profiler
• Online Interest Profiler/Inventory to help students identify
interests/career clusters.
• Can be found at http://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip
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Transition to Work Inventory (TWI) –John Liptak, Ed.D.,Second Edition, by
JIST Publishing.
• Helpful in linking an individual’s interest in non-work activities to
potential work and employment opportunities.
• Focus on non-work interests can be particularly useful for persons with
limited work experience.
• www.jist.com
Picture Interest Career Survey (PICS)-Robert P. Brady, JIST Publishing, 2007.
• Career interest inventory that is suitable for non-readers.
• Results provide an Occupational PICS Code (based on the RIASEC
occupational coding system by Holland) used to identify occupational
themes that might best fit an individual’s personality, preferred work
activities, and ideal work environment.
• www.jist.com
Self-Determination Scales
**Free!!!** AIR Self Determination Scale
• Scale focuses on identifying a student’s status across two broad selfdetermination components, capacity and opportunity.
• Student, parent, and educator forms available.
• http://www.ou.edu/content/education/centers-and-partnerships/zarrow/selfdetermination-assessment-tools/air-self-determination-assessment.html
**Free!!!** ARC Self Determination Scale-Dr. Michael Wehmeyer, University
of Kansas
• Assesses self-determination strengths and weaknesses, facilitates student
involvement, development of goals, and assessment of skills.
• Scale provides scores for autonomy, self-regulation, psychological
empowerment, self-realization and overall self-determination.
• http://www.ou.edu/content/education/centers-and-partnerships/zarrow/selfdetermination-assessment-tools/arc-self-determination-scale.html
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Transition Planning Surveys
Transition Planning Inventory Second Edition-Pro-Ed Publisher
• Addresses a range of transition planning topics through gathering
information from student, school staff, and parent via rating forms.
• Identifies transition preferences, interests, strengths, and needs.
• http://www.proedinc.com/customer/productView.aspx?ID=6063
Enderle Severson Transition Rating Scale-ESTR Publishing
• Rating scales for gathering transition related information for youth with
disabilities.
• Offers different versions of the rating scaled differentiated by disability type.
• Also includes online report generation option.
• https://www.estr.net/
Post-Secondary Education Readiness
**Free!!!** CEC’s R U Ready?-Beatrice Babbitt & Carole White
• Tool to help students with disabilities assess their readiness for
postsecondary education.
• Covers a range of topics related to preparing for postsecondary education
including self-awareness, social skills, academic accommodations and
financial concerns.
• http://ww.teachingld.net/pdf/teaching_how-tos/article_9.pdf
Life Skills
**Free!!!** Casey Life Skills-Casey Family Programs
• Online tool to assess behaviors and competencies across a range of life skills
including relationships, planning, daily living activities, and budgeting.
• Requires login, includes link to resource guide.
• http://lifeskills.casey.org/
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