Testing and assessment is ongoing with children in special
education programs. Some are formal, normed and standardized.
Formal tests are used to compare populations as well as
evaluating individual children. Some are less formal and used
for ongoing assessment of a students progress in meeting his or
her IEP goals. These can include curriculum based assessment,
using chapter tests from a text, or teacher made tests, created
to measure specific goals on a child's IEP. Referenced tests and
assessments used by educators, clinicians, and researchers to
assess children suspected of, or previously diagnosed with, a
pervasive developmental disorder including autism and asperger's
disorder. These instruments are used to measure specific
dimensions of a child's development, environment, or family. The
assessments listed provide measures of development in different
domains of functioning.