Vocational Assessment

Type 1 Vocational Assessment

Type 1 vocational assessments are community-based worksite assessments which may involve job shadowing and/or work experience. The process includes:

Assessing participants’ vocational strengths and limitations and developing an individualized training plan;
Designing and developing instructional aids which could impact on learning and job performance in the community;
Assessing the participants’ work-related behaviors, skills, and abilities in a work setting or within the service provider’s facility;
Identifying the barriers to employment and developing training plans that recognize the social, emotional, and physical needs of participants and which will facilitate adjustment to the workplace;
Liaising with referring agencies/ case coordinators who are responsible for the participants’ overall vocational plans.

Type 2 Vocational Assessment (PRO 3000)

Upper Extremity Range of Motion

Purpose: To assess the ability to perform work tasks that require rapid reaching, grasping, and turning operations under conditions of limited visibility. This work sample assesses upper extremity range of motion, including that of the shoulder, upper arm, forearm, elbow, wrist, hand, and fingers. The work sample requires significant motor coordination and manual dexterity skills in order to reach competitive levels. Competitive standard for this sample is a work rate of 87.5%.

Independent Problem Solving

Purpose: To assess the ability to pay attention to detail and to compare and discern differences among various coloured geometric designs. Significant degrees of general learning ability, form perception, clerical perception, motor coordination, finger dexterity, manual dexterity, and colour discrimination are called for in order to reach a competitive level. Competitive standard for this sample is a work rate of 87.5%.

Whole Body Range of Motion

Purpose: Assesses whole body range of motion, agility, and stamina through gross body movements of the trunk, arms, hands, legs, and fingers. The effects of kneeling, bending, stooping, repeated crouching, and overhead reaching are also assessed. Significant manual dexterity, finger dexterity, motor coordination, and form perception abilities are called for in order to perform at a competitive level. Competitive standard for this sample is a work rate of 87.5%

Eye-Hand-Foot Coordination

Purpose: To assess the ability to move the eyes, hands, and feet in coordination. Spatial aptitude, motor coordination, finger dexterity, manual dexterity, and eye-hand-foot coordination are required in order to perform at a competitive level. Individuals are administered three (3) trials of nine (9) attempts each trial, with 13 being a perfect score for each attempt. Competitive standard for this sample is a work rate of 87.5%.

Multi-Level Sorting

Purpose: To assess the ability to pay attention to detail and to compare and discern differences among various coloured geometric designs. Significant degrees of general learning ability, form perception, clerical perception, motor coordination, finger dexterity, manual dexterity, and colour discrimination are called for in order to achieve a competitive level. Competitive standard for this sample is a work rate of 87.5%.

Numerical Sorting

Purpose: Assesses the ability to make rapid sorting decisions involving several levels of visual discrimination of colour, numbers, letters, and a combination of these. The following physical demands are made upon the evaluee: reaching, fingering, near acuity, depth preception, accommodation, colour vision, and field of vision. Significant form perception, motor dexterity, and colour discrimination are required in order to perform the work sample at a competitive level. Competitive standard for this sample is a work rate of 87.5%.

Align and Drive

Purpose: To assess work skills that require proper selection, placement and use of a variety of hand tools according to instructions and routine. The work involves driving objects into grooves with precise, light hammering. Significant spatial aptitude, motor coordination, finger dexterity and manual dexterity are called for in order to perform at a competitive level.

Machine Tending

Purpose: To assess work skills involving machine tending, positioning, and guiding items into a machine or under a needle. Significant motor coordination, manual dexterity, and finger dexterity are called for in order to perform at a competitive level.

Money Handling

Purpose: XXXXXXX

Simulated Assembly

Purpose: To assess repetitive, physical manipulation involving the bilateral upper extremities. Specifically, this work sample requires significant motor coordination, finger dexterity, and manual dexterity in order to perform at a competitive rate. Competitive standards for this sample are 204 assemblies in 20 minutes.

Tool used in the vocational assessment program to evaluate an individual's clerical comprehension and aptitude. The tool consists of a light-green painted surface with a slot for telephone messages, and a set of 12 cubbyholes, each labeled. Other items include an answering machine and various index cards.

Clerical Comprehension & Aptitude

Purpose: To assess a variety of clerical work skills, including those required in alphabetical filing, mail sorting, telephone answering, and bookkeeping. General learning ability, verbal aptitude, numerical aptitude, clerical perception, motor coordination, finger dexterity, and manual dexterity are called for in order to perform the exercises at a competitive level. Competitive standard for this sample is a work rate of 87.5%.

Type 2 vocational assessments are PRO 3000 Assessments (including Mobile Unit) which include:

Hands-on work samples;
Computerized assessment;
Pro 3000 Interest Survey;
Hall Occupational Orientation Inventory;
Wide Range of Achievement Test (WRAT- III);
Reading Level Indicator.

Rural areas covered by the Mobile Unit include:

North – Dauphin, Minnedosa, Russell, Roblin, Swan River, and The Pas;
East – Carberry, Gladstone, and Neepawa;
South – Boissevain, Deloraine, Killarney, and Swan Lake;
West – to the Saskatchewan border.

There are five major components to the Pro 3000 system from the participants’ perspective. These components can be used in whole or in part, at the discretion of the evaluator to meet the needs of the participants.

Components Include:

Manual Work Samples – eleven sample units in total, each with separate user guide for the evaluator to assist in administering, observing, and scoring the test results. The work samples that compare a Pro 3000 assessment have been developed to give results measured against established industrial work rate standards (i.e. criterion- references assessment). Each sample generates scores in the area of aptitude, physical demands, and related factors, based on the US Department of Labor job analysis techniques.
Pro 3000 Computerized Assessment, Non- Academic – self- administered via the computer, using a hand control or a mouse. Several short work samples replicate aspects of the manual work samples and are tested and scored.
Pro 3000 Computerized Assessment, Academic – self- administered, computerized tests that score reasoning, mathematics, and language skills (called general educational development). The computer generates and score the test automatically.
Pro 3000 Computerized Assessment, Interest Tests – a total of 13 self- administered sub- tests generated and scored (on a 1 to 5 scale) on the computer measure 11 aptitudes and 12 areas of interest.
Paper and Pencil Survey – focusing on vocational interests

The evaluator is in charge of determining what portions of the Pro 3000 system are utilized for each participant’s individualized assessment. Once all relevant information is completed by the evaluator, a variety of output reports, including job matches are generated.

Vocational Profile Review
Money Handling
PRO 3000 Interest
Numerical Sorting
Reading Free Interest
WRAT 4 BLUE
Independent Problem Solving
Align/Drive
Hall Occupational Orientation
Wiring
CAAT Select-a-Level
Machine Training
Upper Extremity Range of Motion
Mail Sorting
PRO 3000 Compass
Alpha/Filing
Multi-Level Sorting
Telephone Answering
Reading Level Indicator
Bookkeeping
Simulated Assembly *
Whole Body Range of Motion *
Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination *

* Not be available for rural Pro 3000 trips.
* For more information please see the description of each work sample above.

Vocational Assessment Referral Form