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  • 1.  Online assessment

    Posted 10-27-2022 12:29
    Hi all,
    I am curious if members of our group are conducting testing for voc evals online and if so what devices you like (or conversely find cumbersome). Feel free to email me privately at tanya@owenvocational.com or owenvoc@gmail.com.
    Thanks,
    Tanya

    Tanya Rutherford Owen, Ph.D., CRC, CLCP, CDMS, LPC, FIALCP
    Owen Vocational Services, Inc.
    Managing Editor- Journal of Life Care Planning
    Managing Editor- The Rehabilitation Professional
    1706 E Joyce Blvd Suite 2
    Fayetteville, AR 72703
    (479) 718-6631
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  • 2.  RE: Online assessment

    Posted 10-27-2022 14:01
    CAPS and COPS with EdITS is good, easy, inexpensive and clients seem to like it and have no/few problems. The MSD subtest on the CAPS test I don't put a lot of stake in since it is paper/pencil, definitely not apparatus/assembly, but they tell me that it comports with KFM on the old GATB, and Ability Profiler. Usually not a problem since if it is a UE injury there is usually considerable UE testing in file by a hand therapist, OT or an FCE which has something like a Purdue. And if not a UE injury you have demonstrated aptitudes required for having done past work as a baseline foundation. That doesn't work with the common thing in which numbskull VEs say Joe could be the ubiquitous assembler or hand packager if Joe (oops), ain't never done an occupation that much required KFM >4. No foundation for nonsense (but that doesn't stop some in VE or politics). SDS and other interest tests can be administered remotely and are good too.

    PS I tell the evaluee to commit to do it alone without input from others. In cases in which "the wife" seems to run everything with the cue being dude saying something like "the wife handles all the paperwork stuff", such can be a reasonable concern

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    Scott T. Stipe, MA, CRC, CDMS, IPEC, D/ABVE
    Certified Rehabilitation Counselor
    Board Certified Vocational Expert
    Scott Stipe & Associates, Inc.
    DBA Career Directions Northwest
    4110 SE Hawthorne Blvd
    #188
    Portland, Oregon, 97214
    (503)234-4484
    (503)234-4126 fax
    email: sstipe@careerdirectionsnw.com
    website: www.careerdirectionsnw.com
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  • 3.  RE: Online assessment

    Posted 10-27-2022 14:14
    Hello Tanya,

    I like using CareerScope when I conduct virtual evaluations. It includes a career interest survey tied to the GOE and an aptitude test battery. Readability is at a grade 4 level I think. For those using the Valpar Pro-3000, it can also be administered remotely via Zoom by giving the evaluee control of the mouse.

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    Francois Paradis
    Certified Vocational Evaluator
    francois@career-options.ca
    Toronto, ON Canada
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  • 4.  RE: Online assessment

    Posted 10-27-2022 23:36
    I enjoy doing evaluations in person. The reality is that I do evaluations nationally and have done evaluations with ex-pats in Asia and Europe. Doing evaluations remotely is necessary. It is also a lot of fun. I am licensed in two states, but my evaluations can be used by anyone in any location. In the time of DOS, I used the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics (ANAM) for a lot of the vocational testing. It was used by NASA for testing people in the Space Shuttle. It has now been released in a Windows version, and I will probably be using it again for remote measurements. Because I do testing remotely, I am confident that I will be doing evaluations as long as I want to do so. An appellate judge said it all, "Dr. Dennis has lots of numbers."

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    Kenneth Dennis
    Rehabilitation Psychologist
    ken.dennis@juno.com
    Stillwater, MN United States
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