Who Administers Specific Tests?
Pierangelo, R. & Giuliani, G. (2006). The Special Educator’s Complete Guide to 301 Diagnostic
Tests. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Intellectual Ability Measures (Typically 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 (Typically administered by the special education teacher,
psychologist, classroom teacher)
• 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 (Typically administered by the special education teacher,
psychologist, classroom teacher)
• 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 teacher,
psychologist, classroom teacher
• Diagnostic Word Patterns
• Test of Written Spelling - 3 (TWS-3)
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Handwriting Assessment Measures (Typically administered by the special education teacher,
psychologist, occupational therapist, classroom teacher)
• 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 (Typically administered by the special education
teacher, psychologist, classroom teacher)
• 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-4)
Tests That Specifically Measure Areas of Visual Perception (Typically administered by the
special education teacher, 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 teacher, psychologist, classroom teacher, 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 (Typically administered by the special
education teacher, psychologist, classroom teacher, 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 (Typically administered by the speech and
language therapist, special education teacher, 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 (Typically 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 teacher and parent
• Draw-A-Person: Screening Procedure for Emotional Disturbance (DAP:SPED)
• Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test (GHDT) - and special education teacher
• 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 (Typically administered by psychologist, special
education teacher)
• 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 (Typically administered by the special education
teacher, 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) – Occupational Therapist4
• 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 (Typically administered by the speech and language therapist,
special education teacher)
• 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 (Typically administered by the special education teacher,
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)