The Vocational Assessment Record (VAR), a management system designed to accompany a token economy based on work behaviors in handicapped and nonhandicapped high school and adult basic education students with a minimum of instructor time and effort, is described. Among ways in which the VAR is said to be different from other motivational and classroom management systems are that it does not require sophisticated training, it is inexpensive, it is appropriate for all types of students in special and regular education, and it lends itself to individualization. Six steps in implementing the VAR are identified, including ways to explain the system to the students and procedures for discussing the student's self evaluation. The authors claim the VAR works for a variety of reasons, including that it strengthens behaviors incompatible with disruptive and nonwork behaviors, it teaches students to delay gratification, and it simulates the real world of work. (CL)