VOCATIONAL EVALUATION Identify what kind of vocational goal is appropriate for your client with help from SFVS
VOCATIONAL EVALUATION
Identify what kind of vocational goal is appropriate for your client with help from
SFVS
During the evaluation period, a consumer is involved in a variety of diagnostic and learning situational assessment examining not only a consumer's interest, aptitudes, and specific skills levels, but also work habits and attitudes, attendance and punctuality, motivation to learn, speed and quality of his or her work, and physical functioning, such as fine and gross motor skills.
At the end of the evaluation period, the consumer meets with his or her referring counselor, and the Vocational Evaluator in a case conference to discuss the outcome of the assessment.
If the assessment is favorable to continuing the training program, an individual plan of study is drawn up, and a course curriculum is chosen, and the enrollment process is complete. Past experience, current skills and learning ability are taken into account in the development of each student's program. It is at this time that a projection will be made concerning the time necessary to complete the program. Once a student has begun a program, monthly case conferences are held with the student, referring counselor and vocational counselor, and instructor. The student's progress towards his or her goal is discussed, as well as any problems or special accomplishments. Work habits such as attendance, punctuality, behavior and physical functioning are addressed.
Here are some of the diagnostics we can administer. If there is a specific diagnostic you do not see in our list, please Email our Vocational Evaluator for more information.
ACHIEVEMENT TESTS
 | TABE - Test of Adult Basic Education, levels 5A, 5D, 5M & 5E |
| Gates-MacGinitie, levels 3, 4, 5 & 6 |
APTITUDE TESTS
| Personnel Test For Industry - Oral Directions Test (ODT) - assess a person's ability to follow directions presented orally. |
| Computer Operator Aptitude Battery (COAB) - assesses ability to perform sequence recognition, format checking, and logical thinking, which are traits necessary for successful completion of both training and employment in field of computer operations. |
| SRA Mechanical Aptitudes Test - composed of 3 major components of mechanical aptitude: mechanical knowledge, space relations, and shop arithmetic, this test was especially designed to determine one's ability to learn mechanical jobs. |
| Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Test (BMCT) - measures a person's mechanical aptitude through a series of multiple choice questions and answers involving mechanical concepts and applications. |
| Minnesota Clerical Test (MCT) - Assess perceptual speed and accuracy required to perform various clerical activities. Client compares a list of numbers and names and notes those that are identical. |
| SRA Clerical Aptitudes Test (CAT) - 3 tests: Office vocabulary, office arithmetic, office checking, the CAT was designed to measure ability to learn the tasks usually performed in various clerical jobs. |
| Computer Programmer Aptitude Battery (CPAB) - assess several work traits that are typically connected to computer programmer related occupations. |
| Career Ability Placement Survey (CAPS) - (8) 5-minute ability tests. developed as a system for ability measurement which may be used in conjunction with measures of interests and the resultant career clusters provided in the Career occupational Preference System (COPS). |
LOGICAL REASONING TESTS
| Raven's Progressive Matrices - assess a person's development of systematic method of reasoning through nonverbal abstract geometric designs. |
| Revised Minnesota Paper Form Board Test (RMPFB) - measures non-verbal problem solving abilities pertaining to spatial relations. |
| SRA Verbal Form A - General ability test. Used as a measure of an individual's overall adaptability and flexibility in comprehending the following instructions, and in adjusting to alternating types of problems. |
| SRA Pictorial Reasoning Test - an 80-item test, used to measure the learning potential of individuals from diverse backgrounds with reading difficulties, whose potential for training and employment cannot be reliably and validly measured by verbal instruments. This test has been best used as a basic screening test for entry-level jobs. |
DEXTERITY TESTS
| Purdue Pegboard - designed to assess fine and fingertip dexterities along with eye-hand coordination. |
| Wood Clamp Assembly (WCA) - specially applicable to people with impaired vision, this test assesses a person's fine finger dexterity in completion of wood clamps that also involves nuts, washers, and bolts. |
| Sequin Form Board - effectively measures a visually impaired person's ability to perceive and manipulate various shapes as well as the person's tactile skills. |
| Minnesota Rate of Manipulation Test (MRMT) - assess unilateral and bilateral manual dexterity along with eye-hand coordination. |
| Bennett Hand Tool (BHT) - measures eye-hand coordination and manual dexterity in the use of medium sized tools. |
VALPAR/JEVS WORK SAMPLES
| Valpar #1 - Small Tools (Mechanical) - measures a person's understanding of/ability to work with small tools. Simulates actual working situations. |
| Valpar #3 - Numerical Sorting - measures a person's ability to sort, file and categorize by numerical code; keep records and receipts, record or transmit verbal or coded information and posting verbal or numerical data on stock lists. |
| Valpar #4 - Upper Extremity Range of Motion - measures a person's upper extremity range of motion, including shoulder, upper arm, forearm, elbow, wrist and hand. Designed to disclose an actuarial level of a person's performance with insight into related factors such as neck and back fatigue, finger dexterity and finger tactile sense. |
| Valpar #5 - Clerical Comprehension - measures ability to perform a variety of tasks found in an office such as filing, sorting, typing and bookkeeping tasks. Measures ability to operate business machines and to transcribe data from an auditory source. |
| Valpar #6 - Independent Problem Solving - measures ability to perform work tasks requiring visual comparison and proper selection of a series of abstract designs. |
| Valpar #7 - Multi-level Sorting - measures ability to make decisions while performing work tasks requiring physical manipulation and three categories of visual discrimination. |
| Valpar #8 - Simulated Assembly - measures ability to work at an assembly task requiring repetitive physical manipulation and evaluates bilateral use of upper extremities as well as evaluating several DOT aptitudes. Characteristic of conveyor-assembly jobs which material moves toward and away from workers on the line and provides insight into may worker characteristics including the ability to maintain both motivation and physical stamina. |
| Valpar #9 - Whole Body Range of Motion - measures ability of gross body movement of the trunk, arms, hands, legs, and fingers as they relate to the functional ability to perform job task. The sample also evaluates several DOT aptitudes and provides insight into the relationship of gross body movement to other "finger" manual dexterities in many different work situations. |
| Valpar #11 - Eye-Hand-Food Coordination - measures ability to use eyes, hand and feet simultaneously, and in a coordinated manner. |
| JEVS #1 - Nuts, Bolts and Washers Assembly - measures finger coordination skill and gross movement manipulation. |
| JEVS #41 - Proofreading - attention to detail, complex written instructions and organizational skills. Proofreads a 3-page article using appropriate proofing marks. |
| JEVS #52 - Adding Machine - completion of a number of mathematical computations utilizing a 10-key calculator. |
OTHER WORK SAMPLES
| Typing Tests |
| Lifting and Carrying |
INTEREST/TEMPERAMENT TESTS
| Career Occupational Preference Survey - assists in career decision-making process. Scores based on occupational clusters which may be used as entry to most occupational information systems. |
| Self Directed Search - self-directed interest inventory which presents many different activities for a consumer to choose as likes or dislikes. |
| Reading-Free Vocational Interest Inventory (RFVII) - non-reading feature of the RFVII requires no verbal symbols or written statements for interpretation by examinees. Provides scores in eleven interest areas. Areas derived from pictorial items presented in 55 triads. |
| Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - A person's response to the MBTI will yield a profile of personality based on the following four opposing dimensions: Extroversion/Introversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, and Judging/Perception. |
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