The PAES report is not a score sheet. It's a working document that feeds straight into IEPs, transition plans, and the conversations that shape a student's future.
What's in a PAES report
Every student finishes PAES with a detailed report that their teacher, their family, and their transition team can use immediately. It is evidence-first. It tells a strengths story, not a deficit profile.
The structure
- Student overview: cumulative data across the full assessment cycle.
- Strengths profile: technical and behavioral strengths surfaced in the lab, with concrete examples.
- Vocational interest and aptitude: which of the five areas the student gravitated to, and where they performed best.
- Work behavior patterns: attention, persistence, independence, response to supervision, and 30 tracked workplace soft-skill dimensions including punctuality, following instructions, teamwork, accuracy, quality control, problem-solving, communication, and safety.
- Areas for growth: named, specific, and paired with the conditions under which improvement was observed.
- Data and observations the IEP team can act on: structured performance evidence teachers translate into IEP goals, provisions, and recommendations.
- Transition planning notes: aligned with Indicator 13 requirements.
See what a report looks like
The sample PAES assessment report shows the structure you and your IEP team will see at the end of a full cycle: a strengths profile across the five vocational areas, work behavior observations, performance data teachers can translate into IEP goals, and named transition recommendations. Student, scores and observations in the sample are fictional for illustration; real reports contain the named student's actual results.
View the sample report online · Download document #02 (Word)
How teachers use the report
The report does three jobs at once.
- It feeds the IEP. The report gives teachers structured performance data and observations to translate into IEP goals, provisions, and Section F language. PAES delivers the evidence; teachers do the translation.
- It drives the transition conversation. Families, students, and transition teams read the same document. Everyone sees the same evidence.
- It defends the plan. When a district has to justify a placement decision, a goal, or a post-secondary recommendation, the PAES report is the evidence.
- 74% of supervisors trust PAES data for high-stakes decisions (C04)
- 76% rate PAES reporting as useful for planning and decisions (C13)
- 75% say PAES reduces subjectivity in decisions about students (C14)
"Our IEP meetings changed once we had PAES data in the room." PAES supervisor, 2026 Customer Impact Survey
Strengths-first, by design
The report leads with what the student can do. Not what they can't. That's deliberate. A report that opens with deficits sets the tone for the meeting. A report that opens with evidence of capability changes what's possible. This is why families respond to the PAES report. They see their child, not a deficit profile.
81% of supervisors say PAES reveals strengths that traditional assessment misses (C02).
"PAES lets our students show us what they can do, not what they can't." PAES supervisor, 2026 Customer Impact Survey
Alignment
The PAES report is structured to align with:
- IEP requirements under IDEA
- Indicator 13 transition plan standards
- Perkins V program quality indicators
- WIOA Pre-ETS documentation needs
- UK EHCP (Education, Health and Care Plan) documentation