Vocational Counseling & Human Resource Development Tests
ASHLAND INTEREST ASSESSMENT (AIA)
Jackson, Douglas, Ph.D., and Connie Marshall, B.A.
~ (1997) measures vocational interest in a way that is suitable for those with very low reading level. It is espeicially helpful to those taking adult basic education, for participants in job market re-entry counselling and retraining, or those in rehabilitation. The AIA consists of 144 forced choice pairs written at approximately a grade 4 reading level. Twelve scales are provided: Arts and crafts, Sales, Clerical, Protective Service, Food Service, Personal Service, Health Care, General Service, Plant or Animal Care, Construction, Transportation, Mechanical.
Starter kits include: manual & 10 administrations
RANGE: 16+ years
ADMINISTRATION: Group, 30 minutes
LEVEL: A
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BARRIERS TO EMPLOYMENT SUCCESS INVENTORY (BESI)
Liptak, John J
~ (2002) is a self-scoring test to identify specific barriers to getting or keeping a job. Barriers assessed are: personal, physical and psychological, career planning, job seeking skills, and education and training.
RANGE: students - adults
ADMINISTRATION: Individual or Group
TIME: 20-30 minutes
LEVEL: A
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BASS ORIENTATION INVENTORY
Bass, Bernard M.
~ is a 27-item inventory consisting of forced choice interest/opinion items. Scales are: self-orientation, interaction orientation, and task orientation. This test can be used in team-building to provide feedback about personal affectedness in occupations and academia.
RANGE: 16+ years
ADMINISTRATION: Individual
LEVEL: B
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BRIGANCE EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS INVENTORY (GRAY) (BESI)
Brigance, Albert H.
~ is a criterion-referenced inventory for assessing basic skills related to employability in ESL & vocational/special education students. Areas assessed include: reading grade level, career awareness & self-understanding, job seeking skills and knowledge, speaking & listening, writing, and math skills and basic concepts.
RANGE: 16+ years
ADMINISTRATION: Individual or Group
LEVEL: B
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CAMPBELL HALLAM TEAM LEADER PROFILE
Campbell, David Ph.D.
~ provides feedback to work group leaders on attitudes and behaviors that impact team effectiveness. Scales include: communication, energy, resources, support, team skills, commitment, mission, activities, conflict, supporting members, promoting learning, innovation, feedback and performance.
NOTE: all reports must be mailed to Chicago for scoring.
Kit includes: self-survey, 10 team surveys, 5 observer forms & planning guide
RANGE: adults
ADMINISTRATION: Individual or Group
TIME: 30 minutes
LEVEL: B
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CAMPBELL INTEREST AND SKILLS SURVEY (CISS)
Campbell, David, Ph.D.
~ measures and cross-references a client's interests and skills such as: influencing, creating, adventuring, organizing, analyzing, helping and producing. The CISS estimates the individual's confidence in their ability to perform various ocupational activities.
RANGE: 15+ years
ADMINISTRATION: Individual or Group
TIME: 25 minutes
LEVEL: B
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CAMPBELL-HALLAM TEAM DEVELOPMENT SURVEY (TDS)
Campbell, David and Glenn Hallam
~ provides team and work group feedback to improve team effectiveness and help teams reach their potential. 19 scales are grouped into four major themes: resources, efficiency, improvement, team success, and procedural checks.
Kit includes: everything needed to evaluate 10 members
RANGE: adults
ADMINISTRATION: Group, 20 minutes
LEVEL: B
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CANADIAN WORK PREFERENCE INVENTORY (CWPI)
Employment and Immigration Canada
~ systematically catalogues and compares interests to different job types. The CWPI measures 5 interest areas which are: Methodical, Objective, Innovative, Directive, and Social.
Kit includes: Technical and User's manuals, Job Dictionary and 25 of each form French Kit includes French Self-Score Forms
RANGE: 15+ years
ADMINISTRATION: Group, 15-20 minutes
LEVEL: B
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CAREER ABILITY PLACEMENT SURVEY - CANADIAN EDITION (CAPS)
Knapp, Lila and Robert R. Knapp
~ measures vocationaly relevant abilities for use in guidance and career counseling. The 8 subtests are: Mechanical Reasoning, Space Relations, Verbal Reasoning, Numerical Ability, Language Usage, Word Knowledge, Perceptual Speed and Accuracy, and Manual Speed and Dexterity. Examinees learn which occupational areas are most suited to present abilities and which areas require more training.
See also the COPS and COPES tests listed separately in this catalog.
CAPS is part of the COPS-system of career counselling tests. If all three tests are used (COPS, CAPS, COPES), a comprehensive guide should be used in place of the three separate profile and guide booklets. These guides allow easier integration of the inventory results. Comprehensive guides are listed separately under COPES.
RANGE: High School or College
ADMINISTRATION: Group, 5 minutes per subtest
LEVEL: A
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CAREER AND LIFE EXPLORER
Farr, Michael
~ (2002) is an informal (non-normed) career and life planning tool which encourages students to consider career as a positive journey, rather than a destination. Students provide information on who they admire, their strengths, values, importance of money, peers, and how much education/training they would consider. Results are cross-referenced to major career-reference systems. Administration information is included with the booklets.
RANGE: grades 6-12
ADMINISTRATION: Individual or Group
TIME: 40 minutes
LEVEL: A
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CAREER ASSESSMENT INVENTORY - ENHANCED EDITION (CAI)
Johansson, Charles
~ is an objective, vocational interest inventory that compares occupational interests and personality preferences with those of individuals in over 100 specific careers. The Enhanced version focuses on careers requiring various amounts of post-secondary education. This test helps students focus on the patterns of interest, advising individuals re-entering the workforce, assisting students in selecting major areas of study, screening job applicants and providing career development assistance to displaced workers.
RANGE: 15+ years
ADMINISTRATION: Individual or Group
TIME: 40 minutes
LEVEL: B
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CAREER ASSESSMENT INVENTORY - VOCATIONAL VERSION (CAI)
Johansson, Charles Ph.D.
~ identifies the occupational interests of individuals who plan to enter careers immediately after high school or community college and who are pursuing occupations that require less than two years of postsecondary education.
RANGE: 15+ years
ADMINISTRATION: Individual or Group
TIME: 40 minutes
LEVEL: B
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CAREER ATTITUDES AND STRATEGIES INVENTORY (CASI)
Holland, J. & Gottfredson, G.
~ is a self-administered, self-scored, self-interpreted assessment of career attitudes and career problems. Nine measures of career/work adaptation include: Job Satisfaction, Work Involvement, Skill Development, Dominant Style, Career Worries, Interpersonal Abuse, Family Commitment, Risk-Taking Style, and Geographic Barriers. This instrument is actually a refinement of two previous research instruments the authors and their colleagues developed in order to study job adjustment and to study people with unstable or chaotic work history.
Kit includes: manual, 25 booklets, 25 answer sheets, and 25 summary booklets
RANGE: adults
ADMINISTRATION: Individual, 30 minutes
LEVEL: A
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CAREER DECISION SCALE (CDS)
Osipow, Samuel H.
~ measures career indecison and its antecedents, as well as an outcome measure to determine the effects of relevant interventions.
Kit includes: manual & 50 booklets
RANGE: high school-college
ADMINISTRATION: Group, 10-15 minutes
LEVEL: B
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CAREER DIRECTIONS INVENTORY (CDI)
Jackson, Douglas
~ (1996) focuses on activities that relate to sales service and technical occupations useful in vocational counselling or in companies wanting information to help place individuals in areas consistent with their measured interests. Examinees are presented with 100 gender fair items that each consist of three statements from which the individual must choose one that best describes the self. Basic scales measure: Administration, Art, Assertiveness, Clerical positions, Food Service, Industrial Arts, Health Service, the Outdoors, Personal Service, being Persuasive, Sales, Science & Technology, Systematic types of work, Teaching/Social Service, and Writing.
CDI is only computer scored. The CDI computer report includes the above scales plus a profile for 7 general occupational themes, scores of similarity to 22 broad occupational clusters, narrative summaries of the three most similar clusters, sample occupations and a profile of similarity to over 100 educational/occupational groups.
Qualified users may call for a free start-up account and a sample of the internet edition of this test.
Specimen set includes: manual, and one extended report administration
Software Kit includes: manuals, disks & 10 coupons
RANGE: 16+ years
ADMINSITRATION: Individual or Group, 35 min.
LANGUAGES: English, French, Spanish. click here for a .PDF sample report. click here for a .PDF list of refrences.
LEVEL: A
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CAREER EXPLORATION INVENTORY - THIRD EDITION (CEI-3)
Liptak, John Ed.D.
~ (2006) is a 128 item self-report inventory used to help job searchers define areas of keen interest that can be used as a focus for job search activity. Results are tabulated in terms of 16 interest clusters. The inventory booklet is a 12 page self-scoring & panel fold-out. Results map to the U.S. GOE.
The CD-ROM goes beyond the free Administrator Guide included with CEI forms. It contains information on the CEI development and validity, guidance for administering the CEI in a variety of settings, and timeframes with various populations. A scripted workshop with PowerPoint slides is also provided.
RANGE: 16+ years
ADMINISTRATION: Group, 30-45 minutes
LEVEL: A
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CAREER OCCUPATIONAL PREFERENCE SYSTEM - PROFESSIONAL (COPS-P)
Knapp, Lila and R. Knapp
~ (2000) measures professional interests and provides job activity interest scores related to occupational clusters. Each cluster is keyed to choice of college major. Results are linked to major sources of detailed job information such as the O*NET, DOT, VIEW and the OOH.
COPS-P can be used to encourage high-school students to plan for college, is useful in helping college students select a major, and is helpful in assisting professionals with career transition. The test is not linked to the Canadian NOC.
RANGE: grade 11+
ADMINISTRATION: Group, 20-30 minutes
LEVEL: B
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CAREER OCCUPATIONAL PREFERENCE SYSTEM INTEREST INVENTRY (COPS)
Knapp, Robert and Lila F. Knapp
~ consists of 168 items providing individual career and occupational information. COPS provides job activity interest scores related to the 14 COPSystem Career Clusters. Each Cluster is keyed to high school and college curriculum, as well as occupations. Scales are: Professional Science, Skilled Science, Professional Technology, Skilled Technology, Consumer Economics, Outdoor, Professional Business, Skilled Business, Clerical, Communication, Professional Arts, Skilled Arts, Professional Service, and Skilled Service.
COPS is part of the COPS-system of career counselling tests. If all three tests are used (COPS, CAPS, COPES), the comprehensive guide (listed with the COPES in this Catalog), should be used in place of the three separate profile and guide booklets.
The Counsellor Packet includes the How to use COPS in Groups booklet.
The Career Briefs kit is a boxed set of 485 cards listing up to date information on various career possibilities. The cards are indexed separately according to each of the 14 COPS Career clusters. Each career card presents information on what to expect in a career, in terms of salary, work requirements, educational requirements, and outlook for the future. Career cards are linked to NOC/CCDO, OOH, and DOT/O*NET.
The Career Booklets kit consists of 14 booklets containing the information on careers in each cluster. All the information that is presented in the career cards kit is included in the career booklets kit. All of the career cards in a cluster are represented in a single booklet. The booklets kit contains 4 copies of each booklet. Thus there are 14x4= 56 booklets in the set. As with the cards, the booklets are keyed to NOC/CCDO, O*NET.DOT and the OOH.
RANGE grades 7-adult
ADMINISTRATION: Group, 20-30 minutes
LEVEL: B
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CAREER OCCUPATIONAL PREFERENCE SYSTEM PICTURE INVENTORY (COPS-PIC)
~ provides non-verbal assessment of Occupational Interests. This test is suitable for students who cannot read well enough to complete even a low-reading-level interest inventory.
Specimen Set includes Manual and one copy of all forms.
RANGE: Elementary through Adult NORMS: Grade 7-12
LANGUAGE: English/Non-reading
AMINISTRATION: 30 Minutes individual SCORING: 15-20 Minutes
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CAREER ORIENTATION PLACEMENT EVALUATION SURVEY (COPES)
Knapp, Robert and Lila F. Knapp
~ (1995) measures work environment preferences by promoting career exploration, and by providing career and occupational counselling. The values measured are: Investigative vs. Accepting, Practical vs. Carefree, Independence vs. Conformity, Leadership vs. Supportive, Orderliness vs. Flexible, Recognition vs. Privacy, Aesthetic vs. Realistic, and Social vs. Reserved.
COPES is part of the COPS-system of career counselling tests. If all three COPS-system tests are used (COPS, CAPS & COPES), a comprehensive guide should be used in place of the three separate Profile and guide booklets. Comp. guides allow easy integration of interest, apititude and work-related values scores.
RANGE: Grade 7-adults
ADMINISTRATION: Group, 30-40 minutes
LEVEL: B
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CAREER THOUGHTS INVENTORY (CTI)
Sampson, James P. et al
~ measures and identifies negative career thoughts using a 48-item 4-point Likert-type items. A total score is provided along with 3 construct scores: Decision Making Confusion, Commitment Anxiety, and External Conflict. The workbook is cognitive-therapy based, and is useful in helping adolescents and adults to modify negative career attitudes.
Kit includes: manual, 5 workbooks, and 25 test booklet
RANGE: high school to adult
ADMINISTRATION: Group, 12 minutes
LEVEL: B
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DEVELOPING THE LEADER WITHIN (DLW)
Phillips-Jones, Linda
~ provides feedback on leadership skills. The 45 item questionnaire comes in a either self-assessment form, and in a peer-rating form. This method allows an individual, plus up to 6 of his/her peers, to evaluate the individual's leadership ability. Leadership qualities measured are: Developing Within, Helping Others Excel, Improving Critical Processes, and Showing Commitment to the team. Forms must be mailed in for scoring. A report/workbook is returned which includes interpretation and a selected set of developmental exercises to help the individual develop more effective leadership talents. The computer generated report selects the best 4 out of 15 possible leadership exercises. If you would like to see all 15 exercises, order the generic leadership workbook listed below.
RANGE: adults
ADMINISTRATION: Group
LEVEL: A
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EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT INVENTORY (EQI)
BarOn, Reuven, Ph.D.
~ (1996) is five-point screening test designed to measure interpersonal, intrapersonal, stress management and general mood by assessing the following factors: emotional self-awareness, assertiveness, self-regard, independence, empathy, interpersonal relationships, social responsibility, problem solving, reality testing, flexibility, stress tolerance, impulse control, happiness, and optimism. The EQI-S (short) is a 51-item instrument designed to measure emotional intelligence when a detailed assessment is not possible.
NOTE: reports must be sent to Ontario for scoring
Kit includes: manual & 10 complete assessment sets
User's set includes: manual & guides
RANGE: 16+ years
ADMINISTRATION: Individual
TIME: EQI 30 minutes; EQI-S 15 minutes
LEVEL: B
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FUNDAMENTAL INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS ORIENTATION SCALES (FIRO)
Schutz, Will et al
~ (1986) is a 54 item self-administered assessment of how three personal needs (Inclusion, Control and Affection), affect behavior towards other people. A profile of the 3 FIRO scales is obtained for the examinee. This profiles can be used to explain how personality affects interactions and conflict/harmony with others. FIRO is most widely used in HR development and team building seminars.
Specimen set includes 1 self-scorable booklet, Introduction to the FIRO-B booklet, and an Understanding Your FIRO-B Results booklet.
RANGE: 13+ years
ADMINISTRATION: Group, 15 minutes
LEVEL: B
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GENERAL APTITUDE TEST BATTERY, THE (GATB)
HRDC Canada
~ (1986) is a Canadian edition of the GATB developed by the government of Canada from the original U.S. Employment Service test of the same name. GATB is a multiple-aptitude battery which measures: general learning ability, verbal aptitude, numerical aptitude, spatial aptitude, form perception, clerical perception, motor co-ordination, finger dexterity, and manual dexterity.
GATB provides a profile of 9 occupational aptitudes which are linked to the NOC Career Handbook. Canadian norms are available for Parts 1 to 7 of forms A & B of the test. Some examiners omit the pegboards so the other subtests may be group administered.
The original U.S. edition of GATB is out of print.
RANGE: Grades 9 to Adult
ADMINISTRATION: Individual, 1.5 hours
LEVEL: B
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HALL OCCUPATIONAL ORIENTATION INVENTORY - 4TH EDITION (HALL)
Hall, L.G.
~ (2000) helps explore values, needs, and interests with reference to careers and life-styles. The inventories are self-administered, self-scored, and self-interpreted. Two forms available Form II is for Junior High to Adults, and is at a lower level than the Young Adult College form (YAC). If you are counselling adults, we recommend that you use form YAC except with populations not anticipated to be pursuing college level training.
RANGE: Junior High -Adult
ADMINISTRATION: Group. 25 minutes
LEVEL: A
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HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING SURVEY (HIPS)
Torrance, Paul, W. Taggart and B. Taggert
~ measures the degree to which individuals think with one or the other hemisphere of the brain. Individuals are assessed in terms of their processing preference: left brain, right brain, integrated, or mixed. The Strategies and Tactics profiles provide a description of a person's overall approach. The Kit includes: manual, 10 surveys & 10 profile forms.
RANGE: adults
ADMINSTRATION: Group, 40 minutes
LEVEL: B
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INTERPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE INVENTORY (III)
Strom, Paris and Rober Strom
~ assesses teamwork in terms of 5 major dimensions: (1) attends to teamwork, (2) seeks and shares information, (3) communicates with team-mates, (4) thinks critically and creatively, and (5) gets along with others. III provides formative and summative feedback, monitors progress, and recognizes individual achievement and can be used either with adolescents in school settings, or as part of a team-building exercise in an HR settings.
Forms pack includes: 10 booklets, 10 each profile forms, 20 team scoring forms, and 20 teamwork skills forms
Kit includes: Manual and Forms Pack.
RANGE: 10-adult
ADMINISTRATION: Group
LEVEL: B
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