Teaching · Related Services

Hand skills for real work, measured on real work.

Rate how a student handles nine everyday work tasks and time a few samples with real materials. The inventory shows what works now, what works with an adaptation and the work rate.

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The work skills inventory

One inventory per student and date. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Related Services$19 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Strengths, adaptations to keep, tasks to teach with an adaptation to try, and items a minute, accuracy and share of a comparison rate for each work sample.
Who it is for
Occupational therapists, transition and special education teachers and school work-based learning staff gathering transition assessment data.
Format
Browser form. One saved inventory per student and date; printed with the summary or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$19 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Related Services toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Related Services space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
small parts, real work, a timer
Drawn for this page. Work samples with real materials show what a student can do on a job better than a table-top test.

How to use it

  1. Set out real materials and show each task once.
  2. Rate how the student did each task.
  3. Time two or three work samples after a short practice, and count errors.
  4. For a comparison, time yourself or a co-worker on the same task and materials.
  5. Add what you learn to the transition assessment and the postsecondary goals.

Start an inventory

Reading the inventory

Comparison rates

A rate means more beside a rate for the same task with the same materials. Time an experienced adult doing it at a normal pace and enter items a minute; the page shows the student’s share of it. It is a local comparison, not a norm.

Adaptations count

A task done with a jig, guide or tray is a task the student can do at work. Write the adaptation into the plan instead of treating it as a gap.

Transition

IDEA requires measurable postsecondary goals based on age-appropriate transition assessments, beginning by the IEP in effect when the student turns 16 (34 CFR 300.320(b)); many states start earlier.

Sources

  1. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.320(b): transition assessments and postsecondary goals.
  2. National Technical Assistance Center on Transition: The Collaborative (NTACT:C), Age-appropriate transition assessment toolkit.
  3. American Occupational Therapy Association, Occupational therapy’s role in transition services and planning (fact sheet).
  4. Sitlington, P. L., Neubert, D. A., & Clark, G. M. (2010). Transition Education and Services for Students with Disabilities (5th ed.). Pearson: work samples and situational assessment.

The example student and rates are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.