A website created for families who want to know more about the assessment process!

Life After High School:  

#1:  What does my child understand and know about occupations?

Social and Prevocational Information Battery, Revised  (SBID-R)

It tests for job search skills, job related  behavior, banking, budgeting, purchasing, home management, physical health care, hygiene, grooming, and functional signs.  [15 – 25 minutes per test / 3 sessions within a week]

Test of Practical Knowledge (TPK)

This will test your child on facts needed for daily living.  One hundred items are grouped into three areas:  personal knowledge, social knowledge, and occupational knowledge.  It will include vocabulary such as strike, interest income, and job references. [30 – 45 minutes]

#2:  What are the aptitudes, work habits and study habits of my child?

Occupational Aptitude Test Battery (APTICOM)

This tests interests and related academic skills.  Tests general learning, verbal, numerical, spatial, form perception, clerical perception, motor coordination, finger dexterity, and manual dexterity. [90 minutes]

Occupational Aptitude Survey and Interest Schedule (2^nd. ed.  OASIS-2)

This tests for vocabulary, computation, spatial relations, word comparison, and making marks. [35 minutes]

Manual Dexterity tests – A test of fine motor dexterity and eye-hand coordination.

1.      Bennett Hand Tool Dexterity Test – Students use tools to assemble and disassemble a series of bolts.  [5 – 20 minutes]

2.      Crawford Small Parts Dexterity Test – Students use tweezers to pick up a pin and place it in a hole on a board, and put a collar on it.  After 36 pins and collars, 30 screws are put through a plate with a screwdriver.  [15 minutes]

3.      Purdue  Pegboard – Students place pins in holes with the right, left, and both hands.  Also, they assemble pins, collars, and washers on a board in a minutes time.  [10 minutes]

4.          Pennsylvania Bi-Manual Work Sample –                             Students assemble and disassemble 105 nuts                             and bolts and place them in holes on a                             board.      [10 – 15 minutes]

5.      Talent Assessment Program – Students perform 10 work samples of gross and fine finger and manual dexterity, visual and tactile discrimination, and retention of details.  [2.5 hours]

6.      McCarron Assessment of Neuromuscular Development, Revised     Students perform fine and gross motor tasks, including bimanual dexterity, persistent control, balance, and muscle power. [15 minutes]

7.      Haptic Visual Discrimination Test – Using touch only, students recognize objects by their shape, texture, size, and configuration, as well as recognizing objects from a photograph. [15 minutes]

#3:  What are my child’s career and vocational interests?

Reading-Free Vocational Interest Inventory – Rev. (R-FVII-R)

This is a picture interest inventory to see what the vocational interests of students with mental retardation and learning disabilities are. [20 minutes]

Wide Range Interest-Opinion Test (WRIOT)

This test surveys interests in job areas.  It contains 150 combinations of 450 pictures, including  areas of sales, office work, mechanics, machine operation, art, literature, drama, and music. [40 minutes]

#4:  What are the skills for the specific work my child has chosen?:

Wide Range Employability Sample Test (WREST)

This test for productivity and technical work skills through 10 concrete tasks.   Activities include folding, stapling, packaging, color matching, and others. [1.5 – 2 hours]

The Singer Vocational Evaluation System (VES)

This test is a set of 27 work samples that provide information for job training, placement in areas such as drafting, plumbing, cooking, filing, shipping, and others. [2 – 2.5 hours]

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Last modified: July 05, 2000