Transition Assessment Database

About this database

This database brings together 147 transition assessments used in special education and Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) planning. Each entry describes a tool that educators, families, job coaches, and students can use to gather information about a student’s strengths, needs, interests, and readiness across areas such as employment, independent living, postsecondary education, and self-determination. For every assessment you’ll find a short description, the transition domains it addresses, which of the five required Pre-ETS activities it supports, who completes it, the format it takes, cost, year, available languages, approximate completion time, and a direct link to the assessment itself. Where a detail wasn’t reported by the source, the field reads “Not Available.”

How to use it

Use the search box at the top to find assessments by any word that appears anywhere in the table — try a tool’s name, a domain like “self-determination,” a skill area, or a phrase from a description. Results narrow as you type.

The three dropdown menus let you filter more precisely. Use Cost to show only free tools or a particular payment type, Domain to focus on a single transition area, and Respondent to find assessments completed by a specific person (student, family member, educator, or job coach). The dropdowns work together with the search box, so you can combine them — for example, free assessments in the employment domain that a student completes independently.

Click any column header to sort the list (alphabetically, by year, and so on), and click the menu icon that appears on a header for additional column-specific filtering. Columns can be dragged wider or narrower if you need more room to read. The running count near the top right shows how many assessments currently match your filters, and the Reset button clears everything to return to the full list. To open an assessment, click Open ↗ in the Link column on the far right; it launches in a new browser tab.