SouthEastern Regional Vision for Education (SERVE) is one of the federally funded regional educational laboratories. This annual publication captures and shares the experiences of SERVE school districts that have volunteered to share their efforts at assessment reform. This issue contains the following articles: (1) "Classroom Assessment: A Driving Force To Improve Learning. SERVE's Perspective" (Nancy McMunn); (2) "Encouraging Discussions about Classroom Assessment at the School Level. A North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Initiative. The State Perspective" (Jeane Joyner and Jan Williamson); (3) "Building Teacher Assessment Capacity: One District's Story, Marks, Mississippi. The District Perspective" (Linda Brooks); (4) "Alcorn School District: Lessons Learned about Improving Assessment Capacity" (Tim Cannon and Sandy Gibson); (5) "Spotlight on Assessment in Early Childhood" (Glyn Brown); (6) "A Creative Movement/Mathematics Project at Bugg Elementary School" (Mary Q. Penta and Joan Certa-Moore); (7) "The Senior Project Experience at Polk County High School, North Carolina: A School-Level Assessment Project To Improve Learning. A High School Perspective" (Buck Preston); and (8) "A Practical Classroom Assessment Course for Higher Education: Developing a Performance-Based Course on Assessment for Use in Higher Education. An Institution of Higher Education Perspective" (Susan Butler and Nancy McMunn). Included with this publication is a booklet, "A Self-Diagnostic Growth Plan for Classroom Assessment Fall 2000 Draft" by Nancy McMunn. (SLD)