Fact Sheet

Fact Sheet
Level 3 Career Assessment
(not mandated by regulation)

What

The Level 3 Career Assessment (situational assessment) is a comprehensive career assessment that utilizes work, real or simulated, as the basis for assessment.

Performed by individuals with vocational assessment experience

10 days minimum

Provides the opportunity to assess the student’s social skills in the work environment.

Who

Generally, these assessment instruments are appropriate for students with the following learning styles:

Concrete learner: a person whose primary way of learning is by doing. The concrete learner is a hands on learner who can apply skills only after they have been demonstrated and practiced.

Poor generalization skills: This person does not apply skills learned in one environment to other environments. For this person, the application of learned knowledge is situation specific.

When

When needed, by age 16 if possible (after a Level 1 Career Assessment has been performed).

Why

The Level 3 Career Assessment is used to obtain additional information when the structured collection of information from the Level 1 Career Assessment is NOT sufficient to make a career programming decision

AND

This style of evaluation is appropriate for the student’s abilities, disability and learning style.

The Level 3 Assessment may also be used if a Level 2 Career Assessment did not yield sufficient information to make a career programming decision.

Note: A Level 3 Assessment may be done without performing a Level 2 assessment. The tool that best matches the students learning styles should be used.