Overview
The Skills Assessment Module (SAM; Rosinek, 1985) is a criterion-referenced, standardized assessment of student strengths and abilities for career training and job success. The SAM is designed to assess a student’s affective, cognitive, and manipulative strengths and weaknesses in relation to vocational skills required in various training programs within a school system. It can be administered to individuals or in a group. Initial sections outline procedures and techniques (including paper-and-pencil tests, hands-on skill modules, and work behavior rating) and administrative guidelines for SAM. Twelve hands-on modules are then explained in terms of purpose, materials, activity, verbal cue, interpretation, and scoring. These modules include the following: mail sort; alphabetizing; Etch-A-Sketch™ maze; payroll computation; patient information memo; small parts; ruler reading; pipe assembly; O-rings; block design; color sort; and circuit boards. Additional information in the manual includes test interpretation guidelines, technical information, reporting forms, and an instrument to measure learning styles.
Summary
Age: 14-18 years
Time to Administer: 1-1.5 hours
Method of Administration: Individually administered, criterion-referenced, paper-and-pencil measure for individuals or groups in vocational training programs; 12 skills modules, all timed except Color Sort.
Yields vocational matrix provides comparison of strengths and weaknesses for 24 traits needed in vocational training
Subscales: Provides Error and Time scores for twelve modules: Digital Discrimination, Clerical Verbal, Motor Coordination, Clerical Numerical, Following Written Directions, Finger Dexterity, Aiming, Reading a Ruler [measurement], Manual Dexterity, Form Perception, Spatial Perception, Color Discrimination, Following Diagrammed Instructions
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