The OASIS-3 measures skills directly related to 20,000 jobs by evaluating general ability, verbal aptitude, numerical aptitude, spatial aptitude, perceptual aptitude, manual dexterity and students' interests. Although it may provide information to match jobs to students' abilities and interests, it rates one star because the vocabulary is outdated for today's students. Often when given this assessment, students need to be given the defintions of words within it.

Based on the description that is given on the website, this sounds like a sound assessment tool. It also appears to be efficient in that you can give it to a group of students or to just one student. I like the fact that it can be given for different purposes as well as the fact that it is matched with the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. I think having tangible and real life results for students helps them to see the connection better and aids families in supporting our students with their interests and goals.

However, one drawback, is that without being able to see the actual assessment questions, it is hard to decide if it would be useful for students with disabilities. SInce it does cover such a wide range of areas, (6 apptitudes and 12 interest areas), with an additional workbook for purchase, it would be diffucult to decide whether or not to purchase this tool. It could prove to be too high for our students despite that it is geared for students grades 8 - 12 and adults. The catch is that most of our students in that range, are reading at the 4th - 8th grade levels.

This assessment has been given to some of our sped students when sent to a local community college for a vocational assessment. The results were hard to relate to what the students were realistically capable of. It would say students scored high in Spatial Aptitude, but then didn't show how they could use that in a job. We found very little correlation to what we found out about students aptitudes to the world of work. Job categories were generally too high for our students. We did not see or get a chance to use the Interpretation Workbooks, which might have made the process more productive and meaningful to the students. Overall, I would look for something else rather than spend my money on this assessment.

I found this assessment to be random and irrelevent to Occupational Apptitude. I attempted to take the sample version of this assessment myself. I questioned what information it would truly convey about the student. I fail to see the usefulness of this assessment.