Informal Assessments for Transition Planning–Second Edition, Book with Access Code

Informal Assessments for Transition Planning–Second Edition is an assessment resource that school-based personnel can use to determine or confirm transition strengths, preferences, interests, and needs for appropriate transition planning in the IEP. This resource can be used as a way to extend and/or confirm information derived from the Transition Planning Inventory–Second Edition (TPI-2) or as a stand-alone material to do initial probes of strengths, preferences, interests, and needs that will engage students and parents in the process of self-assessment and planning for their IEP meetings.

Informal Assessments for Transition Planning, Second Edition is a highly practical and useful resource in the IEP transition planning process for:

• obtaining and confirming assessment information
• establishing some basic estimates of present level of functional achievement
• providing a set of motivating and engaging activities for classroom or home
• documenting students strengths, preferences, interests, and needs
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This second edition reflects revisions in the Comprehensive Inventory of Transition Needs (Level 2) to complement new and revised items on the Transition Planning Inventory–Second Edition (TPI-2) and an expansion and reorganization of the Selected Informal Assessments (Level 3), ensuring at least one informal assessment related to all items of the TPI-2.

Most important features include:

• 10–15 sub-competencies for each of the 57 items of the TPI-2, provide 57 mini-assessments of key knowledge and skill competencies for following up on initial TPI-2 item assessments.
• Over 800 sub-competencies listed across 11 transition planning domains that guide further assessment and targeted competencies for instruction
• Each of the 52 selected informal assessments includes teacher instructions for administering, adapting, and/or interpreting each instrument and an estimated reading level.
• Informal assessments may be photocopied and used with students or parents.
• All instruments are provided as reproducible PDFs via online access

COMPLETE KIT INCLUDES: 167-page book with access code for online material.

167 pages • 8.5" x 11" softcover • ©2013

To see more of this product's contents:

• Table of Contents
• Preface
• About the Authors