Using the Transition Assessment Matrix: Choose variables to narrow down your transition assessment choices. Authentic assessments can help inform transition and Transition IEP decision-making. Using Authentic Assessments: These simple tools allow you to capture transition-related services and activities happening in the classroom, during community-based instruction, in a career/technical education classroom/program, and throughout a student’s school year. Assessments included in the Matrix have either been created by INSTRC, are available online, or are those for which INSTRC has received permission from the original publisher. The Transition Assessment Matrix was developed for secondary education transition teachers by the Indiana Northeast Cadre of Transition Leaders and the Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center (INSTRC). Finding Age-Appropriate Transition Assessments