Online Assessments
Employability Skills for College and Career Readiness
Individuals require many skills to be college and career ready, including academic knowledge, technical expertise, and a set of general, cross-cutting abilities called employability skills.
Employability skills are general skills that are necessary for success in the labor market at all employment levels and in all sectors. These skills have a number of names— soft skills, workforce readiness skills, career readiness skills— but they all speak to the same set of core skills that employers want.
The Employability Skills Framework is a one-stop resource for information and tools to inform the instruction and assessment of employability skills.
ESF-flyer.pdfEmployabilitySkills_Lesson_Planning_Checklist.pdfWeb-Based Career / Transition Assessments and Resources
The following career/vocational assessments and resources are helpful in assisting youth to identify their interests, abilities, and/or work values, match their traits to career choices, and explore the possible careers. The following are free web-based resources. Schools may also have site licenses to web-based career programs (e.g.- Kuder, Bridges Choices Planner, Discover, Eureka, Career Locker, Personal Data Wizard). There are many other commercial resources that are not included in this list.
Career Exploration and Interest Assessment Web Sites
My Next Move: https://www.mynextmove.org/ My Next Move: helps new job seekers, students, and other career explorers investigate over 900 occupations. The interactive web-based tool contains easy ways to search careers.
Career OneStop : https://www.careeronestop.org/ Videos and Information about all different careers to explore.
O*NET OnLine: ONET is a tool for career exploration and job analysis. It has detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, workforce development and HR professionals, students, researchers, and more. http://online.onetcenter.org/
O*Net Interest Profiler: https://www.onetcenter.org/IP.html#web-based
ASVAB Career Exploration Program: This is a free, comprehensive career exploration program that provides tools for high school students to learn about themselves and the world of work. www.asvabprogram.com
Work Values Assessments
Work Values define the factors that make work satisfying for the individual. These inventories are self-appraisal checklists that help youth identify what is important to them.
Work Values Matcher: https://www.careeronestop.org/Toolkit/Careers/work-values-matcher.aspx
Learning Style Assessment Instruments (Learning Styles/Disabilities)
***Use Clever to log into Naviance - Click ABOUT ME and then complete the assessments listed there.
Learning Style Assessment: Quiz to complete. http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/learning-styles-quiz.shtml
Signs of Learning Disabilities: www.ldonline.org/ldbasics , https://www.ldpride.net/ldexplained.htm
What kind of Student are You? http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/kind-of-student.shtml
Personality Inventories/Assessments
Meyers Briggs Information: http://www.personalitypathways.com/type_inventory.html
True Colors Personality Test: https://my-personality-test.com/true-colours
Job Skills Assessment
Resources on the Transition Coalition Website:
South Dakota Dept. of Ed Transition Assessments
My Future Career - Tools & Checklists
Idaho Dept. of Education Transition Assessment Webinars
E-Jam: This is a job skills assessment tool that has been used extensively with adolescents with ED and those with high-risk behaviors (Bullis & Davis, 1999). EJAM was designed to assist in determining an employment placement and the support and accommodations that might be needed. https://transitioncoalition.org/tc-materials-display/?cat_ID=331
Portfolio Resources
California Careers: An array of free on line resources are available at www.californiacareers.info
Transition Porfolio Guidance: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eqpW_aOQzgl1iy4R957WpPGPyn7oWpbBDaxZc7syFXQ/edit
Student Activities for Resume - https://docs.google.com/document/d/164wqWc2Qgmj52-W9_VPUA2GdjF_zu1y-2uJtHM9aEtg/copy
Self Advocacy Resources
AIR Self Determination Assessment: https://www.ou.edu/education/centers-and-partnerships/zarrow/self-determination-assessment-tools/air-self-determination-assessment
LD Self Advocacy Manual http://www.ldpride.net/selfadvocacy.htm
Self advocacy for individuals with mental health issues: http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/links/default2.asp?ID=Protection+%26+Advocacy&Topic=Protection+%26+Advocacy
Leadership through Personal Change: Think, Plan, Do This guide is to help people with developmental disabilities to have self-determined lives. To learn simple ways, using supports, everyone can participate in directing their futures. http://dds.ca.gov/ConsumerCorner/ThinkPlanDo.cfm
Life Skills for Vocational Success: Contains an array of assessments, curriculum resources and teaching strategies: http://www.workshopsinc.com/manual/
The Arc’s Self Determination Scale is a student self report measure of self determination designed for use by adolescents with cognitive disabilities. It is a tool for youth to identify their strengths and limitations in the area of self determination. http://www.beachcenter.org/education_and_training/self-determination.aspx?JScript=1
Accommodations- Jobs Accommodations Network (JAN) A resource for workplace productivity enhancements and reasonable accommodation solutions: http://www.jan.wvu.edu/
Employment Skills
Employment Literacy: There are several sources of resources regarding the definition of the skills and attributes workers need to exhibit in order to enter and maintain employment. They include: A SCANS Skills Rubric at New Ways to Work. https://www.newwaystowork.org/career-readiness/career-development-continuum/
21st Century Skills is a website that provides resources for teaching and defining skills for the job market of today and tomorrow. https://www.battelleforkids.org/networks/p21/frameworks-resources
Career One Stop
The Skills Matcher helps you identify your skills. Use the Skills Matcher to create a list of your skills and match them to careers that use those skills.
Enter your previous occupation in mySkills myFuture to see types of careers your skills and experience will transfer to.
Look up your strongest skills in O*NET to see which occupations match them best.
Technology Skills
DO IT: DO-IT serves to increase the participation of individuals with disabilities in challenging academic programs and careers. It promotes the use of computer and networking technologies to increase independence, productivity, and participation in education and employment. http://www.washington.edu/doit/
For Students
Engage in Student Programs
Join DO-IT activitiesThe Student Lounge
Prepare for college and exciting careersScholarships
For students with disabilities
National Technology Standards are available at www.iste.org/standards
Postsecondary Education
Youth with intellectual disabilities have not had many chances to go to college. This is changing as systems across the country begin to create opportunities for these youth to reap the benefits of postsecondary education. This website will provide information and links to anyone interested in finding out more about the possibilities: www.thinkcollege.net
Tips for College Success including study skills, time management, differences between high school and college:http://www.taftcollege.edu/admissions/counseling/steps-to-success/
Independent Living Skills
Adolescent Autonomy Checklists are an ongoing measurement of the level of independence in the areas of skills at home, health care, community, leisure time skills and skills for the future. https://ardownsyndrome.org/adolescent-autonomy-checklist/
Financial literacy standards, curriculum resources and assessments are available at www.jumpstart.org
(Many of these resources were compiled by the Kings County School District in California)
Adolescent Automony Checklist.pdfasnz-s-checklist-for-asperger-s-adolescent-autonomy.pdf