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Part of a series, this document reports on a study to determine the current status of instrumentation and practices of student assessment in programs concerned with the transition of secondary special education students from school to work or to postsecondary education. The study surveyed the 114 federally funded (Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services) secondary/transition grant applications to gather information on: (1) what student competencies are assessed; (2) what commercially available or locally developed instruments are used; (3) how assessment information is used; and (4) how useful the assessment information is. Results are reported in terms of the following assessment areas: general ability/intelligence, special abilities, vocational skills, academic achievement, language, adaptive behavior, social skills, survival skills, daily living skills, moto