In the "Student-Centered Classroom Assessment" textbook, readers are offered many opportunities to reflect on classroom assessment ideas in relation to their own classroom assessment experiences. As a companion to that text, this book of case studies serves the same purposes, but in a way that calls for the application of ideas and strategies…

Presented at a panel discussion on the teaching of modern South Asian languages in North America at the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, 1972. (DD)

Discusses mastery testing as a method for evaluating music education. (RK)

Author discusses science discovery lessons, presents a model of one, and offers suggestions for structuring other specific lessons. (Editor/MB)

Issue devoted to teaching foreign literatures in the language classroom. (DS)

Report of investigation to find teaching methods to ease transition from school to university for students entering Physics Department of Surrey University. (Author)

Compared student performance on test of subject-matter after a 7 day unit on evolution taught by either individual study, group discussion, large-group instruction, or by a combination of these three methods. Found no significant difference among groups when pretest score used as dovariate. (AL)

Discusses test-taking skills and their application to tests of reading achievement. Presents a rationale for teaching these skills, lists a comprehensive set of skills relevant to standardized reading tests, and offers suggestions for teaching the skills and helping children use them. (FL)

Describes an experiment designed to determine which language errors interfere to the greatest degree with comprehension by native speakers of the language. For this purpose, an instructor prepared a list of most serious Spanish language errors which was submitted to native speakers for evaluation in terms of comprehension and acceptability. (MES)

Suggests ways English teachers can prepare their students to take college entrance exams and state-mandated minimum competency tests. (DD)

A monthly guide to help teach the basic subjects. Here are suggestions for teaching language arts, science and mathematics. (RK)

Flexible structure in a San Francisco State University shorthand course is described as a way to provide motivation for students. Topics discussed are transcription testing plan, method of evaluation, practice tests, increasing difficulty of tests, and classroom results. (TA)