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Call for Contributions Please send short articles, letters, or other contributions for the next issue of Biology Education Review to Deborah Morris of the Workshop Biology project at the University of Oregon. The deadline for inclusion in the next issue is April 30, 1996. The theme we would like to emphasize is: Classroom Assessment Strategies: Angelo and Cross' Classroom Assessment concept has helped many instructors find out more about what their students are learning, and how they as teachers can help facilitate this process more effectively. Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are quick-and-dirty methods for accomplshing this, and for engaging and motivating students, and even helping them learn to evaluate their own learning. If you have developed any effective CATs yourself, please send them in; we constantly get requests for effective techniques specifically designed for biology courses! As usual, your contribution should address not only what you do, but how you know it's effective. Please indicate whether you would like comments on your contribution, or if you would be willing to help others try out your activity, and how they can contact you. Purpose/Format of Contributions Contributions can be short reviews of teaching/assessment strategies sent in by readers, or reported in recent journal articles. You can send material for us to review, or you may write a short review yourself and send it in. You can also send an entire article, if you wish (note that we cannot publish previously copyrighted material on the WWW). You may have an article you are preparing for publication on which you wish to receive feedback; you may want to share an idea or activity in the process of development, so others can try it and give you their suggestions; or you may just have a really great idea that works well for you and you'd like others to be able to benefit from it as well. If you try one of the activities or strategies suggested in this newsletter, send us a short description of how well it worked, whether you modified it and how, and what you'd do differently next time, and we'll include that in the next issue. All contributions should include information on how you assessed the strategy's effectiveness. Send Suggestions! We also want your suggestions for future themes, for other information you'd like to see included in this newsletter, or for other problems and issues you'd like to see addressed. WWW Access Let us insert a link to your Web page, or we'll build one for you if you don't have Web access - just send us the information you'd like included.

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