Educational Assessments-Who Administers the Tests?

Measures of Intellectual Ability–Normally administered by the Psychologist

  • Columbia Mental Maturity Scale (CMMS)
  • Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (CTONI)
  • Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC):
  • Mental Processing Scales
  • Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT)
  • McCarthy Scales of Children’s Abilities (MSCA)
  • Otis-Lennon School Ability Test COLSAT)
  • Slosson Intelligence Test–Revised (SIT-R)
  • Stanford Binet Intelligence Test
  • Test of Nonverbal Intelligence–Third Edition (TONI-3)
  • Wechsler Scales of Intelligence

Reading Assessment Measures–Normally administered by the special education professional, psychologist, classroom professional

  • Decoding Skills Test (DST)
  • Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty (DARD)
  • Gates-MacGinitie Silent Reading Test–Third Edition
  • Gates-McKillop-Horowitz Reading Diagnostic Tests
  • Gilmore Oral Reading Test
  • Gray Oral Reading Test–3 (GORT-3)
  • Nelson-Denny Reading Test (NDRT)
  • Slosson Oral Reading Test–Revised (SORT-R)
  • Spache Diagnostic Reading Scales (DRS)
  • Test of Reading Comprehension–Third Edition (TORC-3)
  • Woodcock Reading Mastery Test–Revised (WRMT-R)

Arithmetic Assessment Measures–Normally administered by the special education professional, psychologist, classroom professional

  • Enright Diagnostic Inventory of Basic Arithmetic Skills (Enright)
  • Key Math Diagnostic Arithmetic Test–Revised (Key Math-R)
  • The Steenburgen Diagnostic-Prescriptive Math Program and Quick Math
  • Screening Test (Steenburgen)
  • Test of Early Mathematics Ability–2 (TEMA-2)
  • Test of Mathematical Abilities–2 (TOMA-2)

Spelling Assessment Measures–Normally administered by the special education professional, psychologist, classroom professional

  • Diagnostic Word Patterns
  • Test of Written Spelling–3 (TWS-3)

Handwriting Assessment Measures–Normally administered by the special education professional, psychologist, speech and language therapist, classroom professional

  • Denver Handwriting Analysis(DHA)–and occupational therapist
  • The Picture Story Language Test (PSLT)
  • Test of Early Written Language–2 (TEWL-2)
  • Test of Written Language–2 (TOWL-2)
  • Test of Written Language–3 (TOWL-3)
  • Written Language Assessment (WLA)

Comprehensive Achievement Measures—Normally administered by the special education professional, psychologist, classroom professional

  • Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Basic Skills
  • Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement (KTEA)
  • Norris Educational Achievement Test (NEAT)
  • Peabody Individual Achievement Test–Revised (PIAT-R)
  • Test of Academic Achievement Skills–Reading, Arithmetic, Spelling,
  • and Listening (TAAS-RASLC)
  • Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT)
  • Wide Range Achievement Test–3 (WRAT-3)

Tests That Specifically Measure Areas of Visual Perception–Normally administered by the special education professional, psychologist

  • Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration–Fourth Edition
  • Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test (BVMGT)
  • Marianne Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception (DTVP)
  • Motor Free Perceptual Test–Revised (MVPT-R)

Tests That Specifically Measure Areas of Auditory Perception–Normally administered by the special education professional, psychologist, classroom professional, speech/language therapist

  • Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock Test of Auditory Discrimination (GFW)
  • Lindamood Auditory Conceptualization Test (LACT)
  • Tests of Auditory Perceptual Skills–Revised (TAPS-R)
  • Wepman Test of Auditory Discrimination–2 (ADT-2)

Comprehensive Measures of Perceptual Abilities–Normally administered by the special education professional, psychologist, classroom professional, speech/language therapist, or occupational therapist

  • Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency
  • Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitudes–Third Edition (DTLA-3)
  • Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA)
  • Slingerland Screening Tests for Identifying Children with Specific Language Disability
  • Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD)
  • Woodcock-Johnson Psycheducational Battery–Revised(WJ-R)

Expressive and Receptive Language Measures–Normally administered by the speech and language therapist, special education professional, psychologist

  • Boehm Test of Basic Concepts–Revised (BTBC-R)
  • Comprehensive Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Test (CREVT)
  • Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation
  • Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock Test of Auditory Discrimination (G-F-WTAD)
  • Kaufman Survey of Early Academic and Language Skills (K-SEALS)
  • Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test–III (PPVT-III)
  • Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language–Revised (TACL-R)
  • Test of Adolescent and Adult Language–Third Edition (TOAL-3)
  • Test of Early Language Development–Second Edition (TELD-2)
  • Test of Language Development–Intermediate (TOLD-I:2)
  • Test of Language Development–Primary-2 (TOLD-P:2)

Psychological Measures–Normally administered by the psychologist

  • Attention Deficit Disorders Evaluation Scale–Revised (ADDES)
  • Children’s Apperception Test (CAT)
  • Conners’ Parent and Teacher Rating Scales (CRS)–and classroom professional and parent
  • Draw-A-Person: Screening Procedure for Emotional Disturbance (DAP:SPED)
  • Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test (GHDT)–and special education professional
  • Kinetic-House-Tree-Person Drawings (K-H-T-P)
  • The Politte Sentence Completion Test (PSCT)
  • Rorschach Psychodiagnostic Test
  • Thematic Apperception Test for Children and Adults (TAT)

Social Maturity and Adaptive Behavior Scales–Normally administered by psychologist

  • AMRAdaptive Behavior Scale-School (ABS-S:2)
  • AAMR Adaptive Behavior Scales–Residential and Community–2 (ABS-RC-2)
  • Developmental Assessment for the Severely Handicapped (DASH)
  • Light’s Retention Scale (LRS)
  • The Adaptive Behavior Evaluation Scale–Revised (ABES-R)
  • Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale (VABS)

Early Childhood Assessment Measures–Normally administered by the special education professional, psychologist, speech and language therapist

  • The Battelle Developmental Inventory (BDI)
  • Bayley Scales of Infant Development–Second Edition (BSID-II)-Ages
  • 1-42 months–psychologist only
  • Boehm Test of Basic Concepts–Preschool Version-K-Grade 2
  • Bracken Basic Concept Scale(BBCS)-Ages 2.6-8
  • Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
  • Degangi-Berk Test of Sensory Integration (TSI)–occupational and physical therapists only
  • Developmental Profile II (DP-II)
  • The Denver Developmental Screening Test–Revised (Denver II)–and
  • occupational therapist
  • Kindergarten Readiness Test (KRT) Metropolitan Readiness Tests–Sixth Edition (MRT-6)-PreK-Grade 1
  • Preschool Language Scale–3 (PLS-3)-Birth-6
  • The Preschool Evaluation Scales (PES)-Birth-72 months

Tests for the Hearing Impaired–Normally administered by the speech and language therapist

  • Auditory Perception Test for the Hearing Impaired (APT/HI)-Ages 5 and up
  • Carolina Picture Vocabulary Test for Deaf and Hearing Impaired (CPVT)-Ages 4-11.5
  • Hiskey-Nebraska Test of Learning Aptitude-Ages 3-18
  • Leiter-R International Performance Scale-Ages 2-17
  • Rhode Island Test of Language Structure (RITLS)-Ages 3-20
  • Screening Instrument for Targeting Educational Risk (SIFTER)-for children with identified hearing loss
  • Test of Early Reading Ability–2 Deaf or Hard of Hearing (TERA-2–D/HH)-Primary grades
  • Assessment Measures Used by Occupational Therapists–Normally administered by the occupational therapists
  • Milani-Comparetti Motor Development Test Miller Assessment for Preschoolers (MAP)
  • Quick Neurological Screening Test (QNST) Sensory Integration and Praxis Test (SIPT)
  • Purdue Perceptual-Motor Survey (PPMS)

Bilingual Assessment Instruments–Normally administered by the special education professional, speech and language therapist, psychologist

  • ESL/Literacy Scale (ELS)
  • Language Proficiency Test (LPT)
  • Matrix Analogies Test–Expanded Form (MAT-Expanded Form)
  • Screening Test of Spanish Grammar
  • System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment (SOMPA)

From The Special Educator’s Complete Guide to 109 Diagnostic Tests: Pierangelo/Giuliani: Prentice Hall Publishers 1999

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