Testing

Connors’ Continuous Performance Test II (CPT II V.5) – This computer-administered continuous performance test simulates a boring task and provides performance-based information with measures to assess inattentiveness or impulsivity, activation/arousal problems and difficulties maintaining vigilance. Respondents are required to press the space bar or click the mouse button when any letter, except the target letter “x” appears. Time intervals between stimuli vary from 1, 2 and 4 seconds. The CPT II takes 14 minutes to complete.

Wide Range Achievement Test, Revision 3 – used to establish fundamental skills essential to academic and life skills. This instrument isolates use of letter and number symbols and does not measure comprehension.

Adaptive Behavior Scale—Residential and Community, Second Edition. This scale offers a comparison to mentally handicapped populations in the areas of personal and social functioning and the ability of an individual to adapt to their outer world and function effectively within it. Part One Domain focuses on personal independence and is designed to evaluate coping skills considered important to independence and responsibility in daily living. Part Two is concerned with social behavior and measures those adaptive behaviors that relate to personality and behavior disorders. This scale also explores five factors of adaptational ability: personal self-sufficiency, community self-sufficiency, personal-social responsibility, social adjustment, and personal adjustment.

Wonderlic Basic Skills Test measures fundamental verbal and quantitative skills required for successful performance in the workplace and in occupational training programs. Content is directly tied to job-related language and math skills published by U. S. Department of Labor in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles.

Personality Assessment Inventory to screen for psychopathology. It is a computer-administered pencil survey written at the fourth grade reading level. The PAI provides a number of validity indexes designed to evaluate factors that could distort the results of testing.

Fundamental Interpersonal Relationship Orientation – Behavior. This questionnaire about typical ways of interacting with people surveys only normal self-reported behaviors. The FIRO-B asks about typical behaviors and surveys three areas of relationship: Inclusion, Control and Affection. Inclusion scores address the degree to which a person associates with others in general. Control scores address the extent to which a person assumes responsibility, makes decisions or dominates others. Affection points to the degree to which a person becomes emotionally involved with others.

The Self-Directed Search-R:CV -- This is a computer-assisted career exploration experience. This survey helps to define the client’s interests in employment areas. The outcomes identify occupations, fields of study and leisure activities of the most interest to the client. High scores in the six areas are important.