Classroom Implementation. Issues in Assessment.

This booklet, second in a series on issues in assessment, seeks to describe an initiative supported by Finger Lakes Community College (New York) to use classroom assessment techniques (CATs) in different academic areas and to present an overview of some assessment approaches that have been used in the classroom. Papers include: (1) "Enhancing Effective Teaching in Multiple Disciplines: An Overview of a College-Wide Classroom Research Project" (Leonard T. Malinowski); (2) "Reinvigorating Our Classrooms: Positive Results of Using Classroom Assessment Techniques" (Bob Morris); (3) "CATS Project: Seeing Problems, Finding Solutions" (Barbara Murphy); (4) "The Prospectus" (Martin C. Dodge); (5) "How CATs Changed My Teaching Style" (Kathleen DelCour); and (6) "CATs in Cooperative Physics" (Sam Samanta). (Contains four references and five selected readings.) (SLD)