Assignment task: Special education professionals use a variety of norm-referenced assessments, criterion-referenced assessments, and curriculum-based measures to determine eligibility, plan and write IEP objectives, and plan effective instruction aligned with IEP goals. Compare the characteristics and purposes for using a norm-referenced academic achievement test, a criterion-referenced assessment, and a curriculum-based assessment. Which assessment would you use to determine eligibility? Why? Which assessment would you use to plan instruction aligned to IEP goals? Why?