Assessment and Curriculum Resources
Workforce Training Assessment Websites
CareerOneStop (website)
Zarrow Center (website)
Workforce Training Assessment Websites
- Workforce Training & Education Coordinating Board (link to website)
- Career Bridge (link to website)
- Exploring Careers
- Viewing job trends
- Finding education
- Paying for school options
- Stores information on dashboard
- Good entry point, good to ask curiosity questions
- Interactive tool to explore career options
- Career discovery through keyword searches, browsing industries, or taking the O*NET Interest Profiler
- Information on career tasks, interpersonal skills
- Can have some idea, definite idea, or no idea--great interest inventory
- Very student-friendly--includes career videos that talks about skills and abilities
- Student can come to his/her own conclusion--gives them alternative ideas about careers in their pathway that might be a better fit than what they were originally thinking
- One-stop career information in the field they're interested in
- Great as an assignment for writing, vocabulary--"pick your top 3"
- "personality" tab is helpful
- Short career videos
- Available in Spanish
CareerOneStop (website)
- Videos provide brief visual and auditory introduction to careers, industries, work options, skills and abilities and education levels needed
- Videos are organized into 16 clusters or related types of work
- Continually add to and update the library
- Harder to navigate--would need to have someone sitting with them to help them look through it
- Extremely comprehensive--better for high-level students
- Great for adults looking for a second career
- Necessary for teacher to look through it ahead of time to learn the website before sharing it with students
Zarrow Center (website)
- Transition Assessment and Goal Generator (TAGG website)
- Costs $3 per student
- 3 different assessments--teacher, parent, student
- Online. There is a paper/pencil version, but you'd have to input it afterwards
- Includes educational materials
- Me! Lessons for Teaching Self-awareness and Self-Advocacy
- Transition Bell Ringers
- Includes Spanish/ASL version
- Helps to prioritize what student is most deficient in in reaching their goals
- Could be used by a department, but would take a year to set up
- Online transition assessment for secondary-aged youth with disabilities, their families and professional
- Identifies IEP goals based upon assessment results