Free Transition Assessments
Free Transition Assessments
Exploring Free Transition Assessment Tools and Guides
Planning for life after high school begins with knowing each student's strengths, preferences, interests, and goals. Transition assessments help students, educators, and families gather important information to guide planning for the future. By using various tools and transition activities, IEP teams can create meaningful, student-centered IEPs that support success in employment, education, and training, as well as independent living. The free resources below can help you get started.
Transition Assessment Process: A Guide for Developing Postsecondary Goals and Transition Services
This guide is designed to help case managers develop postsecondary goals and identify next steps in the transition assessment process.
Age group: Middle School and High School
Duration: Varies
Transition Assessment Process for Students with Complex Support Needs
This Fast Fact sheet provides insights and strategies for completing the transition assessment process for students with high support needs.
Age group: Middle School and High School
Duration: Varies
Adolescent Autonomy Checklist
This 105-item checklist evaluates independent living skills and identifies areas needing additional instruction.
Age group: High School
Duration: Varies
Collaborative Assessment Guide for Transition Planning Services (NTACT:C)
This guide is an update to the previous version of NTACT's Transition Assessment Toolkit. It is designed for all stakeholders to help develop a coordinated assessment approach for transition planning and service delivery (a free account with NTACT:C is required for download).
Age group: Middle School and High School
Duration: Varies
I'm Determined One Pager Tool
This student-centered tool can be used to organize students' strengths, preferences, interests, and needs for the school, home, and community. It is best practice for students to gather input from teachers and families.
Age group: Middle School and High School
Duration: 20-30 minutes
Indiana University Transition Assessment Matrix
This is a database of assessments in English, Spanish, and Burmese to support transition planning in the classroom, CTE programs, and work-based learning experiences.
Age group: Middle School and High School
Duration: Varies
O'Net Interest Profiler
This self-assessment helps students discover types of work they enjoy and explore related careers.
Age group: Middle School and High School
Duration: 20 minutes
Pathful
This online platform for career exploration features virtual job shadowing, career videos, and interactive tools. Access is available through the Virginia Department of Education.
Age group: Middle School and High School
Duration: Varies by activity
PEATC Life Skills Checklist
This tool is designed to track and build independent living skills for students ages 14-21 as they prepare for adulthood.
Age group: Middle School and beyond
Duration: Varies
Photo Career Quiz
This picture-based online quiz helps students discover their career interests.
Age group: Middle School and High School
Duration: 15-20 minutes
Pictorial Interest Inventory
This is a visual assessment where students select preferred tasks from images across career fields to identify potential career interests.
Age group: Middle School and High School
Duration: 15-20 minutes
The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)
This is a comprehensive timed test developed by the Department of Defense that assesses academic and vocational skills in eight areas. Practice tests are available online.
Age group: 17 years old and up
Duration: 30 minutes
Transition Tennessee Assessment Database
This is a collection of 100 or more transition assessments organized by domains to support transition planning (a free account with Transition Tennessee is required for access).
Age group: Middle School and High School
Duration: Varies
Virginia Wizard Career Interest Assessment
This online survey helps students explore careers that match their interests and provides detailed career information.
Age group: Middle School and High School
Duration: 15-20 minutes
Who R U?
This online career interest inventory helps students identify their top career clusters and explore related careers and videos on the Virginia Career View website.
Age group: Middle School and High School
Duration: 30 minutes
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